Remembering the Traditional Hanzi

Pros

• I decided to take another glance at my Heisig book after a few years. And man, because of my years of experience engaging with Chinese, using the book is night and day! ... I've naturally put a lot of the components into my subconscious...
• People need to be able to break down a character into components, so that when they see a new character they almost always see it as two or three (usually two) components put together. There are other ways to get there besides Heisig, bu...
• I do like how it presents the basics and then uses them as radicals in common characters. ... I have a very long way to go, and I won’t continue H much longer (almost finished), but no regrets.
• I do believe heisig is the most time efficient method to learn the characters, I have to add that I'm using a deck that also has the pronunciation, so bonus points for that
• Even though I knew most of the characters in volume one, there’s a beautiful structure that he lays out, and that alone is interesting, especially if you already know a good amount of Chinese (what OP said). ... the combination I’m going...

Cons

• This post sounds like a lot of hogwash and not foundational whatsoever. ... Flag, snowflake, butterfly net. This has nothing to do with this character. All your component recognition is completely wrong. ... For all 7000 characters, if y...
• I ended up giving it up after a week or so for the following reasons: ... I felt like I was just learning random mnemonics on something that I could not grasp on a most basic level. ... Since I was not learning the Chinese pronunciation...
• I ended up giving it up after a week or so for the following reasons: I only knew around 50 or so words in Chinese... I felt like I was just learning random mnemonics on something that I could not grasp on a most basic level... Well rece...
• I have always found these stories to be artificial. They may be useful at the beginning, but they may just waste time that you could be using to write the characters more times while reading the sound out loud.
• I think the biggest drawback to RSH is how it insists you NOT learn pronunciation. I thank that's a huge mistake in their method.