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Have you looked at "Remembering the Kanji"? I was skeptical when reading "Remebering the Kana", but halfway through it I found that despite the silliness, it worked. I tried the Kanji book for a bit and was fairly surprised how well it was working.

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I'm not a huge fan of the Heisig method. I started off with it, but I realized that a lot of the time, the key word I was learning for the kanji had absolutely nothing to do with any meaning or reading for it.

What I currently do is learn new kanji via Kanji in Context, and then create cards for them in my anki deck as I have learned them.

You might want to look into "Kanji ABC" by Foerster & Tamura. It was developed some years after Heisig and avoids using nonsensical keywords. I think their approach is better than Heisig if you already have familiarity with a decent number of kanji. The book is out of print so it may be a little tough to get a hold of (I found mine online at Powell's used bookstore). You can see an online version at work[1], but it isn't that useful on its own without the book.

[1] http://www.kanjiabc.net/

Recommendation: "The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course" by Andrew Scott Conning is a modern version of RTK. Same concept, but better organization, more kanji, and a more natural layout and learning order.

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