I've just started on RTK1, and have completed the first four lessons (up to frame 54 in ed. 6). I'm really interested in the koohii website, and I'd like to use it in conjunction with reading RTK.

My question is: how often should you review your kanji before learning new ones? Do you review Kanji, then learn new ones? Do you review all day and learn new kanji at the end? Do you learn kanji all day and review the old ones at the end? What's your revision pattern?

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Noooo do not review "all day", this is nonsense. Reviewing is a means to help you remember what was learned. Your priority throughout the RTK book is to learn those characters, to understand how they are built from components and create useful mnemonics for them. Simply because they are 2000+ of them.

Try to add 10+ a day to get a decent pace going (usually you can do more in the early chapters because the characters are so simple). 10 a day in the long run is book done in approx; 6 months. With motivation maybe even 5, or 4 months or less if your memory, quality of sleep, and many other small factors are there.

If you decide to use the SRS from the start, then try to clear your "due" cards each day, that's all. Don't do any more. This process is also there to help you identify the weak stories, because you don't want to learn complex characters on weak foundations, so learn the basic ones really well.

If you use the SRS, another consideration that vary from people to people, is whether to review your new cards (blue pile on this site) the same day or next day. Personally for a solid test of my mnemonics I reviewed newly added cards the next day.

If you don't use the SRS until you get 500 kanji or so (sounds reasonable), then set aside a time limit, like 20 min a day, or just do a "free" review (Labs page) of kanji #1 to N. If it takes more than half an hour, you probably want to start using the SRS to make sure you focus the time on characters that most need review.

So TLDR: study the new kanji, add them in the Manage page, review the same day if you want, or next day. Then review the due cards.

Thank you! Really useful reply!