Keeping track/studying non-Wanikani vocabulary?

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This probably gets asked often (sorry!).
Basically I want to start supplementing my kanji study with actual reading study - I tend to like to shake up my study routine often and I’m eager so start reading more. I need to keep better track of any additional kanji I pick up, but I feel like I’ve gotten too used to the Wanikani style of teaching, so I find it difficult to apply towards my own self-directed study.

For people who seek and learn extra kanji on top of the kanji in their current Wanikani levels, what do you use to keep track of new kanji you’ve learned? Is it Anki or something else? If you type your own flashcards, do you type up your own mnemonics or is there a website/dictionary that breaks down any kanji into it’s radicals for you? etc?

Basically looking for any and all advice with this. Kanji sticks really easily when I learn it through Wanikani but I find it more difficult to recall and remember stuff I come across in the wild.

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I was using anki to keep track but I ended up never using it. So now I just use a note in my phone to add things that come up frequently.

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Anki is what I’ve done in the past. But my real strategy is to bring up that word in as many conversations as possible.

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I use anki yeah, but with vocabulary I don’t know the kanji for I add furigana to my cards and after a few rounds and they seem to stick I remove the furigana and wait for the kanji to arrive in a WK level, where I’ll learn the mnemonic, radical and other info.

The thing that makes a word stick the most though is finding a use for it and then I try and use it as much as possible.

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I use a word file that I later run a TTS over in order to create an audio file. Then I listen to that audio when I do the dishes or walk the dog.

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I have a pretty basic SRS flashcards app on my phone that uses a similar interval system, where I can add flashcards and review them. I do this for textbook vocab, or things I had to look up, and I study them frequently-ish, most days (supposed to be every day but it doesn’t get the same amount of attention as WK.)

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oh interesting! I’ve never really tried audio learning like that

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