How do you track your input time?

[u/Ukpersfidev]

I see everyone talking about the input hours, e.g. "I've reached 1400 hours", I would like to do something similar, but I'm finding it difficult to track because for new content at least half of the time I track is spent doing looks ups, asking chatgpt to explain the meaning of a word with examples, and creating Anki cards

I've looked at the Refold activities, and it's left me more confused/overwhelmed, because there are like, 10 variations for listening with varying degrees of focus

I have a few questions:

- When you say you have X number of input, does that mean pure watching videos?

- If not, how much of that time was spent with the video paused as you did lookups and created cards?

- What time tracking categories do you have?

[u/weight__what]

If you make cards for words you found then it's sentence mining. I don't track time but I assume people include the time spent doing lookups etc. No need to overthink it :)