I am currently working through RTK2, I'm around frame 1400, and having a lot of success, so I can just explain what I'm doing. I really don't think this is for everyone so this is just sharing in the spirit of giving information to people who are interested, not so much advocating that everyone else do the same...
First, I think that the reason RTK2 is working for me is that I'm not worrying about grammar or vocab at the same time either (my grammar is slightly below JLPT2), and my vocab is such that I knew pretty much all the compounds in the chapter called "Readings from Everyday Words." That might be a good test of whether RTK2 is a good idea for someone(?) So incidentally, the words presented in RTK2 are at about the right level for me to be learning anyway. Also I'm not doing kun-yomi at the same time either, my goal for right now is just to be able to exponentially increase reading ability and I know a lot of kunyomi.
I'm using Trinity, in the spirit of following Heisig's recommendation to just learn recognition for now, which is my goal as well. So in the vocab lists I've been adding a few groups every time I study. I enter the words given in Heisig, unless it's a word that I already know very well, in which case I use a dictionary to choose another compound using that kanji + reading, as an opportunity to add some new vocab, but only if the rest of that group is not taking too much brain power
To associate the readings with the kanji, I am using a combination of mnemonics based on either the kanji itself or the compound meaning, depending on what is easier for a particular case. If I understand correctly, in some ways this is taking advantage of the same type of system as the movie method only less organized, and the order of kanji being learned is based on rtk2 instead of doing all of the groups of kanji with the same reading at once. So for example, lot's of the kanji with the pronunciation けん I associate with a story involving Ken from Barbie and Ken. Very silly, and if something better pops into my head, or I don't need that particular mnemonic, for example if the combination of the two kanji together lends itself to a better mnemonic associated with that compound meaning, then I use something different. I'm first and foremost trying to use whatever pops into my head first as the hook, just like with RTK1.
Regardless of whether or not this is a great system, it is working with a minimum amount of effort (not that I don't want to put in more effort, just time constraints). I spend about 20-30 minutes a day entering new RTK2 compounds, way less than that reviewing, and the rest of the time I have for Japanese I read online newspaper articles with the help of rikaichan to see if I am reading correctly and to re-enforce what I've learned, or currently I am reading a Haruki Murakami novel and understanding and being able to read the vast majority of it. The newspaper reading is especially rewarding if you just get onyomi down it seems. I have been using RTK2 for about 3 months, but have only entered vocab on about 45 different days (I make a new list each day I do it) and I can really say that now I can almost read the newspaper, whereas before I could not at all!!
Anyway, sorry it's long, that's what I'm doing, and like CaLeDee I would also like to hear other people's strategies.
First, I think that the reason RTK2 is working for me is that I'm not worrying about grammar or vocab at the same time either (my grammar is slightly below JLPT2), and my vocab is such that I knew pretty much all the compounds in the chapter called "Readings from Everyday Words." That might be a good test of whether RTK2 is a good idea for someone(?) So incidentally, the words presented in RTK2 are at about the right level for me to be learning anyway. Also I'm not doing kun-yomi at the same time either, my goal for right now is just to be able to exponentially increase reading ability and I know a lot of kunyomi.
I'm using Trinity, in the spirit of following Heisig's recommendation to just learn recognition for now, which is my goal as well. So in the vocab lists I've been adding a few groups every time I study. I enter the words given in Heisig, unless it's a word that I already know very well, in which case I use a dictionary to choose another compound using that kanji + reading, as an opportunity to add some new vocab, but only if the rest of that group is not taking too much brain power
To associate the readings with the kanji, I am using a combination of mnemonics based on either the kanji itself or the compound meaning, depending on what is easier for a particular case. If I understand correctly, in some ways this is taking advantage of the same type of system as the movie method only less organized, and the order of kanji being learned is based on rtk2 instead of doing all of the groups of kanji with the same reading at once. So for example, lot's of the kanji with the pronunciation けん I associate with a story involving Ken from Barbie and Ken. Very silly, and if something better pops into my head, or I don't need that particular mnemonic, for example if the combination of the two kanji together lends itself to a better mnemonic associated with that compound meaning, then I use something different. I'm first and foremost trying to use whatever pops into my head first as the hook, just like with RTK1.
Regardless of whether or not this is a great system, it is working with a minimum amount of effort (not that I don't want to put in more effort, just time constraints). I spend about 20-30 minutes a day entering new RTK2 compounds, way less than that reviewing, and the rest of the time I have for Japanese I read online newspaper articles with the help of rikaichan to see if I am reading correctly and to re-enforce what I've learned, or currently I am reading a Haruki Murakami novel and understanding and being able to read the vast majority of it. The newspaper reading is especially rewarding if you just get onyomi down it seems. I have been using RTK2 for about 3 months, but have only entered vocab on about 45 different days (I make a new list each day I do it) and I can really say that now I can almost read the newspaper, whereas before I could not at all!!
Anyway, sorry it's long, that's what I'm doing, and like CaLeDee I would also like to hear other people's strategies.