Hi everybody, after reaching level 10 in WaniKani (hooray) I’m about to start my journey with Anki and I was wondering:
Are there must-have decks in Anki?
Like deck that have extremely useful things that everybody should know?
Any other thing to know about Anki?
Thx anyway.
If you don’t mind paying for a service, I recommend Hinekidori’s Genki Vocabulary deck on kitsun.io. It’s the best beginner prebuilt deck I know of. It tests you on each word in three different ways: Japanese → English definition, English → Japanese definition, and Japanese audio → English definition
Not sures it’s a must, but if you wanna be able to read most names/proper nouns, this deck is great: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/3885156604 . I’d do it like a card or two a day, and over a year or few it will add up
This might be a better fit once you know more kanji, but names use a lot of weird readings anyway. So maybe it doesn’t matter
Personally, I think any deck made for a textbook you’re using is a must have, it also lets you get ahead of the book and possibly be more ready for later units. Outside of that when you’re done, I recommend just making your own flashcard with a picture of the word on the front and the japanese word on the back. So you’re training yourself to recognize something in the language instead of simply remembering this word = that word in English. Bonus field for mnemonics. I recommend naughty mnemonics (things that are violent, sexy, or gross stick quicker). I got 650 Korean words down in 3 weeks thanks to this method. If you set your goals too high it can take up a lot more time than it’s worth so don’t do more than 10 or 15 a day.
I found this deck a very good complement to WaniKani:
It focuses on grammar and reading/listening comprehension and injects new grammar and vocab very progressively. By default the cards display the text in rōmaji but you can switch them to kana/kanji (there are instructions on the website).
That’s quite an oversimplification 
The better it connects with stuff that’s mostly on your mind or gets strong reactions (good or bad, doesn’t matter) or can be imagined vividly connects best. For me that’s mostly either stuff related to anime (characters, tropes, scenes. Love using characters, as I can just use their names for readings and a visual of what their doing for meaning) or really silly things (like doves reproducing like cells). The violent, sexy and gross stuff rarely sticks for me
Well, it’s better suggesting the core idea since not everyone has the time to just read books. So 
Sorry that wasn’t meant as critic, but as addition Simplified advice is good for most people, but there are alwas the odd 20ish% for whom this will not work and who need more background to understand what will work for them. As this is a forum with a lot of participants, 20ish% is a lot of people, so I gave additional info. 
I think it’s important to not only repeat what helps most people, but also add something for the minority of learners
sorry i really didn’t understand what you mean by “deck made for a textbook” can you explain further pls?
Never hurts to try to find out which percentage you fall into.
If you go to Shared Decks - AnkiWeb and search the textbook you’re using, 9/10 there will be a deck. Some can be mediocre but there’s almost always a highly rated one that everyone uses.