Hey guys.
So, sorry for the newbie question.. but I decided that for now, it's best that I completely stop my studies with Genki until i'll feel confident enough to approach Genki again with some amount of kanji stuck in my head.
I got RTK ( first volume ) and I want to get some idea from the experienced people of this forum as to how I should approach this book.

So basically the book shows you how the kanji is drawn, what the kanji means in English, and a background about it.
I know that I won't be able to learn the readings of it and thus not even be able to know how to say the kanji in Japanese, but I decided to give it a shot anyways.
I download Anki but I have 0 clue on how to use it, but still I want to get some idea on how to start studying with RTK.
Would appreciate some help.

Maybe it's just me but I feel that until you know some basic Japanese grammar it's best to leave off learning kanji simply because the time you spend [waste] trying to learn kanji that you can't even use at this stage would be better spent learning the grammar, even if only phonetically (romaji OR kana).

I just wrote this in your other post, but I'll repeat it here. The book recommends reading the keyword and then writing the kanji from memory. A lot of people reverse it to look at the kanji and try to remember the keyword. Maybe writing the kanji once or twice at the beginning to help remembering it. Either way, what most people do is read along in the book and use some kind of flashcard software such as anki or this site to review. In case you haven't noticed, this site has a practice area to learn the kanji along with the book. People on this site write stories and you can pick and choose which story works best for you.

John555 is a bit of an iconoclast and likes to do things his own way and that's great if it works for him, but you should know that he does things differently than most people here. He's a little salty because he feels he wasted his time learning kanji first, so take his advice with a grain of salt. There is something behind his sentiment because you'll spend a lot of time learning 2000+ kanji and not have any skill you can use it for. So some people either do rtk lite or do rtk in parallel to genki. Again whatever works for you.

Follow the instructions in the book. But use one of the Anki decks, rather than manual flash cards.

Yep, I think everyone here has gone about Kanji and Japanese in general their own way. There's even a thread somewhere about what people felt was the best and worst things that they did to study. You might want to check it out, but you might end up bogged down, second guessing your plan for studying.

It could be that you'd like to do a bit of basic grammar study first, to get a quick grasp (not a good grasp, but just some sort of feel for the language) before starting RTK.

My advice for approaching RTK is this:

1. Sign up for an account on kanji.koohii.com (the review half of this site. You'll need a different log in name I think)

2. Click on the manage tab and enter +10 or something to add those flaschcards to your koohii deck.

3. Open the book, and read the introduction carefully, then move on to chapter one.

4. Go through frames 1-10, reading Heisig's stories (these are for you to make vivid daydreams from, so you can remember the meaning and how to write the kanji with no problems). If you're unhappy with his stories, perhaps they're not working for you, go back to koohii and click on the study tab. Enter the frame number of the kanji into the browse box on the left-hand side of the page, and press enter. This will take you to the page with everyone's public stories that you can choose from and copy.

5. When you've gone through your first 10 kanji, writing them out once or twice (imagine your daydream, then write the kanji), you can test yourself by clicking on the review tab.

Sorry if that's a bit detailed and everything, but I honestly had difficulty finding people's public stories when I first started using this site, and people were very helpful with dumb ol' me so

EDIT: After the first 10 frames, add them in lots of 10 or sets of the same primitive, working your way up to probably about 100 a day, that seems to be the number that most people recommend, add more or less depending on how well you can manage your study.

To add to the above, I would limit yourself to roughly 20-30 a day, give or take. Since that'll get you through the book in about 3-4 months allowing for skipping and days off.

http://rtkwiki.koohii.com/wiki/Walkthrough is also pretty useful.