Take a Break

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Take a Break is a Chrome extension that monitors and reminds you to take breaks periodically.

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Description from store Take a Break is your personal wellness companion for a healthier digital life. In today's fast-paced world, we often forget to prioritize our well-being while working on our computers. Take a break helps you make small yet significant changes in your routine. 👁️ Rest Your Eyes: Give your eyes the care they deserve. Regularly looking away from the screen helps reduce eye strain and keeps your vision sharp. 🚰 Stay Hydrated: Get timely reminders to drink water throughout the day. Proper hydration is crucial for maintaining focus and energy levels. 💆‍♀️ Stretch and Relax: Avoid the stiffness and discomfort of prolonged sitting. Reminders are broadcasted to take short breaks for gentle stretches and brief walks to keep your body and mind in harmony. With customizable intervals and friendly notifications, Take a Break ensures you maintain a healthy balance between screen time and self-care. Start taking mindful breaks, stay hydrated, and nurture your well-being effortlessly. Install now and experience the difference in your daily routine! What's new (v1.2.1)? Introducing Advanced settings to that enables customizing break times and audio alerts. 1. You can now customize break times as per your comfort. Click on "Advanced settings" in the popup to expand the timings pane and adjust the duration for each type of break by dragging the slider towards left or right. 2. Enable audio alert to notify when the break ends. Lost track of time when you were relaxing during a break? No worries. You can now simply enable the "Break end notification sound" option in the "Advanced settings" and an alarm rings just before the break ends. Disabled by default. Toggle the switch to opt-in to the break end audio alert option. Make sure to click on the "Submit" button to save your changes.

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(2025-03-04) Karen Cottingham: After a bunch of the Break Timers are not longer usable as their permission were not updated with the new Chrome changes, I needed to find a new reminder to drink water. I thought this extension having three options would be great. However the 'Drink Water' is the only one that does not go below 45 minutes. I want to be reminded to stay hydrated every 20 minutes but the only option with that time available is looking away from the screen.
(2024-09-30) Manolo: A very useful extension to have. I do, however, have the following requests, which I feel would enhance user experience: (i) Option to change the duration of the breaks, be it the 20-second Look Away break, the 3-minute Stretch/Stroll break , or the 1-minute Drink Water break. (ii) Audio notifications to indicate when breaks have ended. This becomes extremely useful particularly when one's away from the computer. Additionally, providing the choice of audio or the ability to use one's own audio file would be an added bonus. (iii) When watching a YouTube video, or online movie, the Take a Break nofitication screen has only a "Dismiss" button. I hope the developer can include "Pause" and "Resume" buttons in the notification screen, to provide users the ability to pause any video/movie that's playing before taking the break?
(2024-02-23) Nikhil Wankhede: Excellent! This extension automatically reminds you to take a break.
(2023-10-16) Architha Krishna: Great extension!! much needed!
(2023-10-16) Architha Krishna: Great extension!! much needed!

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