Take a Break Reminder

The Take a Break Reminder application was developed to be an easy-to-use software that allows you to customize the duration of your work and the number and length of breaks.

Take a Break Reminder can help to prevent or cure headaches, eye problems, aches in your back and hands, and other health issues related to long-term computer work by compelling you to take regular, short breaks. The default settings of Take a Break Reminder provide complete protection for your health. However, you may want to adjust them to optimize Take a Break Reminder performance or disable options that do not apply. You can change durations of work and breaks, options for your protection, and many others as needed in your work environment.

By default, Take a Break Reminder starts automatically at Windows startup. After Take a Break Reminder starts, its icon appears in the notification area (sometimes called the "system tray") at the far right end of the taskbar. (The notification area may also include icons for other notifications and the system clock.) Right-click the Take a Break Reminder icon to pop up a menu that contains choices for managing Take a Break Reminder.

At any time you can find how much time remains prior to the beginning a Break or MicroPause. Move the mouse cursor over the Take a Break Reminder icon in the notification area to display pop-up text providing information about the current state Take a Break Reminder. It will tell you how many hours, minutes, and seconds remain until the next scheduled Break or MicroPause.

Take a Break Reminder will warn you about an approaching break. In "Break" mode the warning appears at 3 minutes and again at 1 minute before the break. In "MicroPause" mode it appears 1 minute prior to the break. This will allow you to save your work and to be prepared for a break.