How to stay focused while reading (when your mind wanders)
You reach the bottom of the page and realise you absorbed nothing — your eyes kept moving after your mind left. Focus during reading fails quietly, and static pages give it endless room to fail.
01Shrink the visual field
A full page is an invitation to wander — eyes skip ahead, jump lines, find distractions. Reducing what is visible to a single point removes everywhere else to look.
02Add gentle time pressure
When text arrives on a clock, attention has a job to do every 200 milliseconds. Pace pressure converts reading from passive scanning into an active task, which is exactly what wandering minds need.
03Read in short, complete sessions
Fifteen focused minutes beat an hour of drift. End sessions while focus is intact — stopping on success builds appetite for the next session.
How Anchor does this for you
Anchor collapses the page to one word at a fixed point, paces it at your chosen WPM, and keeps the interface bare — no page to wander over, no feed to escape into. The anchor letter gives your eyes a literal home.
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