I'm just a beginner, but I hear a lot of intermediate-advanced level people talking about how the stories eventually fall off and when they see a kanji they think about its real meaning and reading, not about stories and keywords. So at that point is still useful doing RTK keyword-kanji reps or would be better to delete the deck?

Unrelated question: What does it mean to "recognize" a kanji. Knowing its keyword and writing?

Ramazzati Wrote:Unrelated question: What does it mean to "recognize" a kanji. Knowing its keyword and writing?

Seeing a kanji and identifying it correctly. Maybe you know its keyword (this is mostly only useful when your vocabulary is tiny), maybe you know a word it's used in, maybe you know (one of) its meaning(s) and/or (non-signal-primitive) reading(s) even if you can't recall any particular word it's used in...

my two cents is don't ever delete decks completely...just stop adding.

delete cards you're sick of, but there's always a lot of stuff in a deck that's valuable.

generally speaking, if you know a card really well you should mark it easy. do this a few times and the card will not appear very often. Almost all my rtk cards from 3 years ago are in 15-20 year intervals now.