Most people recommend that i study using flash cards after finishing RTK by making sentences but how the hell am i supposed to do that? If i reach that point in my studies i'd only know the meaning of the kanji not the reading so how would i type it out AND know what it means? Or, is the core2000 deck on anki what i'm looking for? Also, how can i check my progress on anki? thanks

For using sentences, most people recommend finding them, and using that material.

The core deck is a pre-prepared set of sentences for just that purpose, and the best decks have the kanji, furigana, audio, translation, and you can look up any specific words in a sentence if you want.

Anyway, you are asking a lot of questions. Let us know if i'm wrong, but the major thing I'm picking out of your questions, is how do you learn to read a kanji at the end of the day. One of my major gripes about RTK is the lack of readings or even a vocab word to associate the kanji you are learning. (I kinda like this suggestion for RtK.)

So, I'm under the camp that learning readings in isolation of words isn't the most useful use of your time. I think drowning yourself in vocabulary is fairly reasonable way to learn the readings you need. So, grabbing a vocab deck like core(2k-6k-10k) wouldn't be a bad way to start. You can also grab Subs2srs and make sentence decks out of anime episodes. I find it very enjoyable to pick out vocab words from anime I already enjoy.

I will note that there is RTK book 2, which does teach you readings, but I hear only a small portion of the book (like pure groups or something like that) is most useful. There is also memory house methods like the movie method. So if learning straight vocab doesn't do it for you, there are dozens of other ways to approach the problem.

I have the Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course, which offers short 2 -3 word kanji compound vocab lists beside each kanji which only include kanji that you've already learnt. It also has cross-referencing with the Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary which offers more examples. Quite helpful. I can't see people storming through it as fast as RTK though. Then again, that's probably just me not enjoying kanji study much.

Honestly nukemarines guide is a pretty good layout for a beginner, if'n your looking for a path, that's a good one: http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=5110