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for people who want to try the “looking things up while reading more” thing instead of anki, but find it hard to detach from the stats aspect of anki, here’s what i’m doing.
i use both monolingual and J-E dictionaries on my phone, which save my search history. so at the end of each reading session (or just the end of the day), i total all lookups and note them in a daily counter/graph app.
with it i can see how many lookups i’m doing each day (and total for the week), so i can aim for a certain amount. number of lookups roughly correlates to amount of reading (of course varies based on difficulty of the text as well). so if i do 50 lookups i’ve probably read 4000 characters or so since i tend to average one lookup per 80 characters. less lookups means i’ve probably read less.

it’s been interesting to see the stats. although it’s not as 詳しい as anki’s stats, it at least gives me some way to track “progress” and it certainly takes a lot less time and energy than anki (like 3 minutes and some basic calculations). just from setting my daily lookup goal to 100, i’ve been reading about three times as much as i usually do (still haven’t actually hit 100 in a day yet though).
i’ll continue this for a few weeks and see if i’m learning a satisfying amount of new words as i keep up my daily goal (100 lookups per day for me roughly equates to 8,000 characters read).