I've been wondering this lately. I finished RTK at the very end of last year and many of the keywords don't help me that much anymore. At one point, I began to devise several clues to help me in my reviews, because keywords can be very vague sometimes and I didn't have actual Japanese words to use as a hook.
I'm not sure how to deal with certain failures at this point. For instance, I've just "failed" the card 路 (path) because I remember 露 (dew) instead. 露 is a more complex kanji and even has 路 as a primitive, so I clearly haven't forgotten it - at least not as a primitive. But because I don't have Japanese keywords for all kanji yet, it takes much longer to review kanji than vocabulary in general. Maybe I should just press whatever (hard, good, easy, I don't know... would you recommend doing this? and if so, which one?) and hopefully I'll have learned a Japanese keyword by the time it pops up again in my reviews?
I thought going out of my way to learn words with these kanji might be helpful, but then again I don't know if they would stick since I'll most likely end up not even seeing these words that often.
I'm not sure how to deal with certain failures at this point. For instance, I've just "failed" the card 路 (path) because I remember 露 (dew) instead. 露 is a more complex kanji and even has 路 as a primitive, so I clearly haven't forgotten it - at least not as a primitive. But because I don't have Japanese keywords for all kanji yet, it takes much longer to review kanji than vocabulary in general. Maybe I should just press whatever (hard, good, easy, I don't know... would you recommend doing this? and if so, which one?) and hopefully I'll have learned a Japanese keyword by the time it pops up again in my reviews?
I thought going out of my way to learn words with these kanji might be helpful, but then again I don't know if they would stick since I'll most likely end up not even seeing these words that often.