Should you or should you not move on from mnemonics?

[leoz]

Just like others in the thread, I find that I am not relying on mnemonics much at all any more, even for new kanji.

If there’s a kanji/vocab I’m having particular trouble with, then I sometimes use the mnemonics to help, but otherwise, I generally will try to remember the kanji by connecting it to either words I already know / have seen, or to other kanji I’ve seen.

Overtime, I feel like I just kind of remember the kanji without actually remembering the mnemonics.

Also I was curious and did a search and found a similar question/thread with a lot of responses:

Does anyone else rely less on mnemonics in higher levels?

Yes, for any single kanji I expect to first rely on mnemonics, and after a while, I wouldn’t need them anymore. But what happens now is that for a new kanji, I sometimes disregard the mnemonics from the beginning. I wonder if, by the time they reach the Enlightened stage, I will forget all of those kanji and have to basically start them again, with the mnemonic (until I don’t need the mnemonic anymore).