#Micro break reminder free

Don’t get me wrong, these are incredibly important, but nothing helped more than remembering to take short breaks in between work sessions. Purchased all of the ergonomics you can think of from peripherals to standing desks and chairs. I wouldn't wish this on anyone with how debilitating it can be some days. If I had a simple and minimalist tool to remind me that I needed to stretch here and there in between short periods, I could've prevented years of pain along with five figures spent trying to diminish these symptoms. You can pick the times you need to take a moment to go stretch.Īs a young designer and developer, I've suffered RSI for many years. Being absent this long is considered a natural break, therefore, resetting the timer means you'll experience the 10m break in an hour instead of potentially getting it minutes later.ĭev-note: Soft-refreshes the 'page' but keeps your current session instead of an actual page refresh, this allows the display and sound notifications to continually be sent over without requiring further user gestures.ĭiversifying the stretches section to include arms, back, shoulders, legs, etc.Īllowing user to customize their own breaks. Removing the progress bar optimizes the app and decreased CPU usage by 3x, progress bar wasn't necessary as 90% of the time the user is not watching it and leaves the tab hidden.Ĭlient-note: Resets the entire timer starting back to the first break, this helps when you are absent from the keyboard longer than 5+ minutes. In addition, being able to go back to our advised break timer and reset their breaks. Users are now able to set their own custom breaks from how long the timer should be and how long the break they want.

If you'd rather not check the direct link below! 🤗

I’ve recently launched on Product Hunt, I would love for the community to help upvote it to spread awareness of this issue and most importantly prevent it to our fellow power users. It reminds you every 15m to take 30s micro-breaks and every hour, 10m breaks using browser push notifications, so this allows anyone to use it no matter the OS on their desktop.

#Micro break reminder free

Go Stretch is a free online tool that reminds you to take quick breaks which help and prevent the symptoms of repetitive stress injuries.