I generally recommend to people to start keeping a dream journal (and to be consistent with it - writing every day and immediately upon waking up), to do reality checks automatically and additionally upon feeling that something could be amiss (my favorite is holding your nose and trying to breathe) and to really watch out for False Awakenings. I also often go through things that happen often in dreams (teeth falling out, being back in school, reading being weird, running being weird, etc.) and briefly mention other ways to have a lucid dream (WILDs for example). This is a short version of my usual 'intro to lucid dreaming' but the slightly unpacked version is enough in my opinion to start someone off (and most of what they need to know).

What I myself do is reality checks and a dream journal (although I don't currently and my dream recall has degraded) but have tried most techniques I've seen on the relevant forums (mainly dreamviews.com) that have been posted before 2009-2010 back then.

I assume your methods are much more centered on rationality?