An afternoon, and three different things to do with it

There are three kinds of free afternoon, and they want completely different things from you. Getting them mixed up is the reason a free afternoon sometimes turns into a wasted one.

The afternoon where you want to make something

Some afternoons you want to end up with a physical result. A printed page does that: pick a collection, open a character as line art, print it or colour it in the browser. Nothing to install, nothing to lose, and you can stop halfway.

KolorPage keeps them organised per collection, for anime, games and TV, at https://kolorpage.com.

The afternoon where you want to exercise something

Others want the opposite. You want to be slightly better at the end of it than at the start, in a small and boring way that does not need a coach.

Matching a character image to its name, or a name to its image, is exactly that: retrieval practice with a short interval, which is the part of studying that actually moves things. MemoriesGame runs several formats of it over the same library, at https://memoriesgame.com.

The afternoon where you want the decision made for you

And some afternoons you have been going back and forth about a choice for long enough that the choice has become the whole problem. The useful move is to stop choosing and let something choose.

SortSpin does that with a wheel of portraits and names, plus cards and numbered boxes if you want the randomness in a different shape, at https://sortspin.com.

The reason to name the three is that the first two have a shape and the third does not. If you spend an hour making something and then an hour arguing about which one to do next, you have done half of each.