I think a happy middle ground exists. Most of my cards are manually typed - not copy/pasted. And yes, it totally sucks, so I don't produce as many. I've been

I think a happy middle ground exists. Most of my cards are manually typed - not copy/pasted. And yes, it totally sucks, so I don't produce as many. I've been doing it since 2018, and the total number of cards I have is a few thousand - probably under 5000. If you review daily, you'll often end up with days where you have nothing to review. Very manageable. I recently got back to coding in C++. I'd forgotten some aspects of the language, and also needed to come up to speed with many of the newer features in C++23 (I was mostly an 03 and a bit of 11 person). It's a lot of cards to create! I'm doing it slowly, but this would be totally infeasible if I had to do it by hand. Still mostly manual typing, although I do copy/paste code snippets.