I use a notebook for my Rtk in which I write everytime:
- kanji number & keyword
- sometimes a little keyword translation
- one story or more stories when it's rather difficult

Do you do something alike or just use the website?

I also make up stories ahead of my number I am at now. That way I can advance in some way when I can't concentrate well. To learn a batch of kanji is for me easier when I have all the stories I am able to remember in advance. Off course testing them I do on this site

When I was going through the book, yes, I definitely used a notebook. Now that I'm finished I use the web site more to get other people's ideas for kanji that I couldn't learn myself.

It's also easier - using the notebook - to learn new Kanji when I am at work, on the toilet or on the road somewhere else.

I was writing in a notebook until I found this site and Anki. Notebooks are more portable, though.

I don't use a notebook (just the site) but have fallen into the same strategy as Dakoina of choosing/writing stories ahead of where I am in the book. I usually do this in the evenings if I am too tired or just need a break from memorizing stories. The next day, it seems like much less effort to learn new ones because I don't need to stop after every kanji I am studying to work out the story.

I use Anki for the cards, and this site for stories (because I have no imagination) all on a netbook (which I think is pretty portable.) I do use a notebook to practice writing although.

I use a notebook and write the stories there first. I practice the writing of each kanji there a couple times next to each story. On the right side, I do my drills (it's a graph paper notebook). On my first failure, my "study" time is in retyping the story into the RtK. Just the act of reading and retyping it is often enough to get it to stick better.

If failure continues, and the RtK story changes (I make changes first in RtK), eventually I erase my old story in my notebook and rewrite the better one. The act of erasing and re-rewriting often causes the new story to stick.

I don't use a notebook, per say, but I take the book, and I write out the kanji a couple times on a separate sheet, and write out or quickly doodle my story next to it. If I can't come up with a story I feel will stick, I mark it for later (if I'm not at home) and look on the site to find one that will. Actually, I should probably keep my work in a note book though, as I could find my notes easier that way. >.>;

I didn't record my stories in any way. If I couldn't remember them without an aid, then they weren't very good stories to begin with