All characters in Heisig and Richardson's Remembering Traditional Hanzi book 1 and 2. Also contains text to speech, stroke order diagrams, Simplified, and a handwritten font.
Almost all characters have a diagram for stroke order that I highly recommend using if you want to learn handwriting and avoid bad habits from just drilling with Anki. They're pulled from here:
https://github.com/skishore/makemeahanzi
Some characters have example sentences. I started immersion just after 1500 characters (you should start sooner than that!) and most of these are the place in my immersion that I first found the character. Some of these sentences have accompanying audio and even fewer have an image from the movie I was watching when I saw it. These are usually images of Bruce Lee and you can just delete them by going to the Fields menu in the card browser.
When reviewing most of the later characters, I would write any character I mistook a keyword for in the "Similar characters" section. I think someone going through for the first time could see where I failed to make sure their mnemonics are distinct, or at least commiserate. Heisig is notorious for being easy to conflate keywords with so I recommend you do the same--for a good example of what you're in for, try looking up a few synonyms for "fear" in the card browser.
For some of the characters in book two I manually wrote in some of the descriptions of components that come with characters.
For some of the name characters that I found hard to remember I added the tone into the keyword, e.g. card 3011 is Lu3 instead of Heisig's Lu.
"Keyword Info" is used a bit liberally. It's usually part of speech but when I found a card vague I added the clarifier there. For example, I added "(the bird)" to card 2812 (crane).
The pronunciation fields are a bit hit-or-miss. One of the decks didn't have the most accurate usage zhuyin, (e.g. making ㄓㄨㄣ into ㄓㄨㄋ), but I can vouch that everything in those fields corresponds to a pronunciation of the character, but not that it corresponds to the Heisig pronunciation. A good example is card number 1385, 為. The Heisig keyword is "to act", which corresponds to tone two, but both pronunciations point towards tone four. Where zhuyin and pinyin differ it's often intentionally to show multiple pronunciations.
This deck is the labor the last few years of my life. I made it by slowly massaging together these two decks through reviews:
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1262502616
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/62003592 (I think)
Some people might say the focus on example sentences violate the minimum information principle. I started doing these when the number of characters I was confusing with other characters got to the point that it was prohibitively time consuming to try and form distinct mnemonics for all of them. If the idea of failing cards trying to decide if a character was "search" (2925), "search for" (3033), "seek" (0871) or "look for" (0572) you can. I'd recommend using either sentences from immersion (which has the benefit of grounding the meaning in the language) or pronunciation (as I did with extra mnemonics like this
https://countryoftheblind.blogspot.com/2012/01/mnemonics-for-pronouncing-chinese.html) as an aid to help you distinguish.
If you got through that paragraph I'll assume you'd like my advice on how to use this. Do the first 50 or so to get an idea of how to form a mnemonic and then immediately jump into immersion for beginners. When you find a new character, learn it and all of the characters that it relies on.
To an extent, the more characters you learn ahead, the more your reading will be able to flow, but you don't need to know more than a few hundred characters or so to start getting a feel for the grammar, and a feel for the grammar takes long enough that you want to start ASAP. If you learn 1500 before you know the usage of 我 expect your first few weeks of reading Chinese to feel like someone took an English sentence, printed out the low-res thumbnail from the Google Images result for each word, shuffled all of the papers around, and handed them to you in a stained manila envelope.
加油,and please let me know in the comments if there's a way I can improve this!
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