If I am just doing it for myself, yes. If I want to communicate with other people, most of them probably can’t read IPA. Different audiences require different solutions.
On a second thought, if I am just doing it only for myself, unless I am already fluent in IPA, it is probably less work to learn reading Cyrillic directly.
Perhaps you can just use the international phonetic alphabet?
If I am just doing it for myself, yes. If I want to communicate with other people, most of them probably can’t read IPA. Different audiences require different solutions.
On a second thought, if I am just doing it only for myself, unless I am already fluent in IPA, it is probably less work to learn reading Cyrillic directly.