I recently got into Blue Prince, a looping roguelike puzzle game that requires you to take notes in order to progress and decided to take all notes in Japanese. This has been perfect practice because it's contextualizing the vocab to key puzzle pieces and I find myself recalling kanji way faster than I normally do via flashcards. Essentially I just have the game running in one monitor and Jisho + Bunpro on the second monitor and if I don't know a word I stop, look it up, write it down and carry on. Not to shill this particular game too hard but it's suited so well for this purpose as it's set in a mansion and relies on tons of basic words like fruits, dates, colors, keys, shapes, stars… you get the picture.
I'm sure this isn't a novel method but I thought I'd share anyway. I was in a slump burned out from anki prior to this but writing out stroke order and learning in context like this has been so much more engaging and effective.
by icedrift