So my recommendation is don’t even do 3 minutes. Do 3 seconds.

I fixed that problem with books in school when I was constantly reading every chance I got. Instead of thinking of the chunks being chapters, think of them being paragraphs. Most novels don’t have really long paragraphs, so use that. If you want to make the chunks less variable (or you’re just quicker at reading). Then go by page. Advancing the story only really requires one sentence, so a paragraph or page at a time is plenty.

If you do something like that, you’d be amazed at how much reading you can get done. It’s probably even faster than reading large chunks at a time since you only got a little taste of the story between the door and your office, in between classes, during your lunch break, etc.
It really helps to get a smaller bookmark if you do this though to emphasize the progress and the how much you are actually progressing (for the record, they also stay in the book better).

I have a similar problem with lots of books. The chapters are too long. It takes commitment to read just a little bit more. Therefore, I don’t read, at least until I can stomach the thought of another bite that probably tastes great, but doesn’t fit in my mouth.

Goin’ to that place . . . 3-5 songs. Doin that thing . . . maybe 2.

Now all I have to do is apply. Like, at the start of this song. . .I’ll start doing this. And if I don’t wanna at the beginning of the next, move on to something else. Next song, move back (if I have to) cuz you know, I might still need to get shit done.

Provided I stay on schedule, in three days I will be completely caught up. My entire Surusu deck will be moved over, and every card seen. Last night I finished out the RTK1 Kanji in Anki, and remember, I started transitioning a week ago. Last friday. Over half of the RTK1 Kanji were seen on day 1.

How?

Two things:
– 1 minute timeboxes (my Anki timebox setting hasn’t been set to anything other than 1 minute since re-installing it)
– very liberal deletion (more liberal than usual, which I guess I want the usual, but I sometimes get attached too easily, but with this little project I seem to be cleaning things up pretty nicely).

Basically, one minute timeboxes are so short and easy that they’re addictive. I’ve done 500 or more reps every day since installing Anki and AnkiMobile, and that’s insanely huge for me. On day 1, I did 1500 reps in a day — a new personal record (previous was 600). And, any time I saw a card was hindering my want to do another minute after the first, I went into the next minute with every intention of exterminating that card to make sure things stayed fun and addictive, because even a single minute can be tiring if the cards suck. In the end, I did 5400 reps in eight days (today included, and I’m not done with today; that number also does not include deleted cards), and I could quite comfortably keep up these sorts of stats because of how fun and addicting 1 minute timeboxes are, especially when combined with liberal deletion.