HAH, YOU ALL ARE JUST “OTHERS”. KNEEL BEFORE ME
Speaking of which, I just learned how to tell someone to kneel…which segues into my answer! I learned it by playing a japanese game. Exposing yourself to native materials and then adding words you don’t know into an SRS system of your choice (I use HouHou atm) is a surefire way to acquire new vocab. The problem with this is that its not always the most efficient the earlier on in your studies you are. At first, its more worth it to learn words by just memorizing from a list (Imo), but as time goes on it becomes better to focus more on native text.
If you are at that beginner level, I would recommend using a core 10k/6k deck and sorting by frequency. Personally I use this:
I don’t know what point you are at in your studies, but if you don’t know many kanji I wouldn’t recommend diving into vocab too much. Focus on grammar and maybe some words that use hira/kata. Once you hit level 10, you can knock out that first spreadsheet, but I wouldn’t recommend using this method for words over core 6k. Once you know your core 6k, you should be comfortable with using native texts to learn new vocab.