Can any Kanjidamage users help me out?

OK, so, I've just finished learning my kana and want to go onto kanji. Heisig was good but a touch too dull for my liking, so I'm going to try out Kanjidamage.

All I'd like to know is, what exactly do I learn? Just the mnemonic/keyword, or the kunyomi, jukugo, etc.?

It just seems like an overwhelming amount to learn for each one the first time through, and I'd like to know how others who have used it went about it.

Thanks.

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Genki is a great resource in my opinion. I've been working with it for a few weeks now and it's very organized in how they explain use of particles and other sentence structures. At chapter 4 they completely cut any use of Romanji so we can get a better feel for reading pure Japanese. The first volume only covers a hundred or so Kanji, as does the second book. That's not really a problem though considering the texts aren't used to specifically learn Kanji, but allow users to understand the principals of the language. I'd recommend the text in full, but the price can be expensive if you don't find a copy you can pirate somewhere. If you're looking for a free online alternative, Tae Kim's Grammar Guide is perhaps very comparable.

Your explanation on the asterisk use makes a little more sense to me now. However, when you put the Kanji and the Okurigana together and it becomes 食べる, where does the た disappear to in it's KUNyoomi reading of た＊べる? I think that's the part which might be confusing me the most. I'll do a little wikipedia reading of how to better use Okurigana; maybe that will help shed the light on some things.