Good app for break reminders
polycounter lvl 8
Hello guys,
I found one pretty cool app and i have been using it for a few weeks. It`s really helpful tiny program . It reminds you after 45 min for example that you need a 10 min break with pooping window on all monitors , which stays 10min , and after the break is over you can start working again and the process repeats again after 45min . Also you can set-up daily limit , which is like your daily hours in front of the PC , after which the app tells you that the work for today is over
It has pretty neat exercises window that pop-up when you are in break , telling you what kind of exercises to do for your eyes and back so you don`t get eye or back strain. You can set-up the timers to your own liking . And it has very cool statistics , where you can see the data broken in to months , how much you worked and how much you had a brake .
Tiny small timer that you can move whatever you like and you can make it to stay on top of your software windows or bellow . It shows how much you have until rest .
Break window which pops-up when its time for rest . You can make the windows to lock-up your PC so your can`t continue working if you tend to continue working even after the brake windows pop-up or you can just skip and postpone the brake.
Statistics
Oh and i forgot , the program is totally free
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And here is the link : http://www.workrave.org
Anyway i thought it could be helpful to someone , i know how much artist in the industry have problems with back and eye strain because they work non-stop for long hours , because most just forget so hope this will help 
I saw it mentioned in a couple of posts in the forum , but i thought it deserves entire discussion.
I found one pretty cool app and i have been using it for a few weeks. It`s really helpful tiny program . It reminds you after 45 min for example that you need a 10 min break with pooping window on all monitors , which stays 10min , and after the break is over you can start working again and the process repeats again after 45min . Also you can set-up daily limit , which is like your daily hours in front of the PC , after which the app tells you that the work for today is over
It has pretty neat exercises window that pop-up when you are in break , telling you what kind of exercises to do for your eyes and back so you don`t get eye or back strain. You can set-up the timers to your own liking . And it has very cool statistics , where you can see the data broken in to months , how much you worked and how much you had a brake . Tiny small timer that you can move whatever you like and you can make it to stay on top of your software windows or bellow . It shows how much you have until rest .
Break window which pops-up when its time for rest . You can make the windows to lock-up your PC so your can`t continue working if you tend to continue working even after the brake windows pop-up
or you can just skip and postpone the brake.Statistics
Oh and i forgot , the program is totally free
.And here is the link : http://www.workrave.org
Anyway i thought it could be helpful to someone , i know how much artist in the industry have problems with back and eye strain because they work non-stop for long hours , because most just forget
so hope this will help I saw it mentioned in a couple of posts in the forum , but i thought it deserves entire discussion.
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It stops flashing when you focus the program window -- like clicking that taskbar button or Alt-Tabbing into it.
It's a single executable, you can get it here (source code is included):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/okx66oa900yu2l1/Break Timer (Win32).zip?dl=1
Yet another alternative is a preinstalled app from Windows 8.1 (and above, I think), it's called "Alarms", it shows a notification on the desktop when the time is done.