>>281712111 (me)
I was posting in a hurry because I didn't want to leave you hanging and the thread was about to purge so I left a few things out:
It took me forever to notice that you could just put images into google translate because I was so used to looking them up the hard way. Don't stop doing things the hard way when you can, but it's nice to just screenshot and paste a novel compound if everything else is flowing easily.
If you're still actively learning kanji (or it wasn't included when you were) look up some resources on semantic-phonetic construction. I don't know why the hell we weren't taught about it when I studied Japanese in college, but I went a long time with random gut feelings as to how certain kanji were read and it turned out it's no coincidence. There are Anki decks for it and a script for Wanikani that adds a section about it. There are probably other good references but I haven't looked extensively.
If you're frequently using a site that has furigana without a toggle, write or look into a script or style override to blur them if you're not moused over so you can't just lapse and get lazy for a moment.
