Anki

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My Kanji Decks for Tobira:  https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/3960100011


I highly recommend syncing Anki on your laptop, phone, and other devices.  It makes it a lot easier to study wherever and whenever without having to remember to bring your book or notes with you.  If you use it effectively, you can get a lot better at memorization just by spending a few minutes a day with it.

For my kanji decks, I usually have some paper and a pencil handy so I can write it out.  For example...

When I get a flashcard with the kana and meaning...

... I try writing the kanji.

Then I check it against the back of the flash card.  Be careful with this part, since some kanji look very different in handwriting than they do in computer fonts.  You can set up Anki on your computer to display in different fonts, but I haven't found one that has kanji as they are written.

The Anki user manual has a ton of information on how you can customize your cards and Anki to match the study methods that works best for you, so I encourage you to at least look through it.  There's so much that it can do that I wasn't even aware of until recently!