I came back this year after covid killed my routine (and my mental health) too.
I restructured my routine. This time I’m giving myself anything that would make it easier to do reviews/lessons. And I’ve been aiming to hit 0 lessons/reviews in the challenge thread here for each level. This means that if I can do 10 reviews in the bathroom before I jump in the shower, or in bed when I’m enjoying the feeling of warm blankets and don’t want to leave to my computer, then a mobile app is essential (I love Smouldering Durtles!)
Make wanikani.com your homepage on your browser, or even just take note of when current level kanji/radicals are back up for review so you’re aware that you should be checking back in. Anything to keep it in the daily rhythm.
I started slow with the Accountability thread. Then I wanted to keep doing more to push, so I made a study log and got into the Reading Every Day Challenge. For me, I get motivation from wanting to stay connected to others, so I come back to the forums often and read other people’s study logs and try to be relatively active.
The most important thing is that you’re paying attention to what works for you and trying to minimize pain points. The goal is to absorb the language and learn kanji/practice reading/speaking/listening/whatever.
Editing to mention: I think it was @simias who said recently that it’s better to know 2000 kanji mostly rather than 1000 kanji perfectly. I’m adopting this mindset too. I’d rather know 2000 kanji even if it might require me to take 2 or 3 guesses on 30% of them so I can move immersion forward faster, rather than take levels slowly and make sure I’m 100% solid on every kanji before leveling up.