I first tried to learn Kanji with Heisig's Remembering the Kanji around January to February 2016.
I had a long winter vacation from work and instead of traveling, I decided to take a stab at learning the Kanji.
It had always been a dream of mine, and I decided that I had wasted enough time. I had been dreaming of learning Japanese and the Kanji for over 10 years. I just needed to do it.
My progress
Read an interview with Heisig about how he learned all the Kanji in about 1 month.
I thought I could do that too.
I wasn't able to.
However, I was able to practice about 1250 Kanji before the reviews became too much.
I was overwhelmed with all of the reviews on Anki.
Then my winter vacation ended and I kind of fell off the track.
I didn't end up continuing my Kanji studies.
Now, back in 2017, I'm starting up my Kanji studies again.
What happened? Why wasn't I able to keep going?
Too much overwhelm
I wasn't able to maintain the same pace because work started.
It's easy to practice new kanji, but the long term reviews is the more difficult part
I say that Heisig's book is good for "Learning the Kanji" and daily practice with Anji is for "Not forgetting the Kanji"
There are two parts, the way I see it
It's easy to just write out the Kanji, learn a story, or "think" that you've learned the story.
However, Anki is the real test.
Did you really learn the Kanji?
Or what I think is the more accurate question: Did I forget the Kanji?