When should you start incorporating sentence/vocabulary mining from immersion contents with the use of Yomichan and other similar tools?

I’ve been wanting to incorporate Yomichan into one of my tools for extracting unknown vocab and kanji from immersion material. Thing is I’m not sure when in my studying stage should I do this. I’m still currently doing 2k core with Anki, plus Wani Kani. I’m at the N5 level with a decent amount of N4 covered. My question is, should I sentence/vocab mine when I finish the core Anki deck?

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  1. IMO once you know 2k words and some grammar you are certainly ready

    I started even earlier than that at like maybe 1250 words or something and genki I/II grammar and besides having to look up about a million words and ask questions online about some sentences I didn’t understand, it was totally fine

  2. I think it’s OK to start right away, but my recommendation is that you use frequency data (you can download the JPDB frequency data for Yomichan; that’s probably the easiest thing) to decide which unknown vocab you’re going to sentence mine. Mine the common words; skip the uncommon ones until later.

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