"Do I need this word?" If people use it you need it. And there's only one way to find out if people use it. And that's the same way as learning how to use it. Stop caring about these questions, about some sort of false efficiency. And just consume the language.
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I recommend Anki. But it has to be from personally mined sentences where you know the context. And if Anki is just getting in the way of more contact, ignore it. I also don't think an order of study matters because the language will tell you what's most important itself.
Agree personally mined and less than 20% of total time spent. Order of study does matter though. Imagine you use Anki and study 25 new +1 sentences per day. You then watch 3 hours of Japanese TV. There will be more than 25 sentences to learn. Which ones you pick to mine matters.
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In that situation yeah, you wouldn't want to spend limited time mining a bunch of stuff that might not be useful. But the point is that if you just let yourself consume more for longer you'd find out whether the word you could've learned the other day would be helpful.
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And technically if you really learned it from that impression alone, and it was common enough to come up again you wouldn't need the Anki card. Since sentence mining is about sustaining the level you're at, rather than studying something new.
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