Anyone who does vocab study out of Anki?

My studying usually goes through phases that vary from 95% reading 5% active watching/listening to 95% active watching/listening 5% reading. I'm at another point where I don't feel like reading. But that's where the bulk of my new vocabulary comes from. I was wanting to do some vocab study but I know I won't use anki for long. Anyone that does anki-less vocab with suggestions? Maybe even some computer independent ones.

Maybe memrise? I started it yesterday and it's a lot more fun for me than anki ever was. It doesn't feel like a chore to me either.

Campus makes these great word learning notebooks. They're in the long/skinny and short/wide versions. You can list a bunch of kanji, hiragana, then English meanings on the other page. Reads like a little notebook of words you want to know. Add words while you're reading if you don't feel like looking them up right away, and look them up later.

Don't want to see the English meaning? Fold the book over (it's spiral bound) so that page doesn't show. Don't want to see the hiragana? Cover that column with a small strip of paper.

jlist/jbox has them for ~$3/each.

Yeah, you could do it with a computer, too, or any other sort of paper.

I'm perfectly happy with Anki, but I've tried (Iversen's) Word Lists, and if I were to use another method for memorizing vocabulary, that would be the one. It's normally done on paper, I don't think anyone has made a program for it, and anyway, writing the words is probably important for a technique with so few repetitions.

http://learnanylanguage.wikia.com/wiki/Word_lists

(using a mobile device)
♤ Casual dictionary look-ups while watching
♧ Store nice words in a medium of your choice
♤ Enter some of the words into anki
Tagaini Jisho is a possible alternative.

nadiatims from this forum is the boss when it comes to anki-free ( vocab study if I recall.

Ok I had a look and found this link to the RevTK wiki:

http://rtkwiki.koohii.com/wiki/Nadiatims_method

scroll down to the "vocabulary learning" section.

It's quite interesting and I've used it a bit at work where I don't feel I should be "on my phone" doing what looks like playing games or something (even though I'm studying).

So I would print out some news articles and read them, underlining any words I didn't know. At the end (or as I was going), I'd look them up in a dictionary (I recommend a good one, I use the WISDOM), check out a few example sentences there, and then copy the vocab into a page of a notebook in the way described in the above link. After a couple of articles I'd usually have built up 20 or so new words and would call it a day. I only did this when I felt like it though, I wasn't very disciplined about it.

Although reviewing them is "contextless" in the sense of there being no sentence. I've found the original context of where I came across it would stick with me, in an better (more organic?) way than the random sentences from my Core6000 deck do.

It would be great if nadiatims could jump on and clarify a bit more though because I've sometimes wondered if I am doing it "properly".

Thanks for all the replies. Some of these I may need to try. The nadiatims one sounds promising.