Break Reminder 🧘‍♂️

Lightweight Windows utility for healthy work habits. Get periodic reminders to hydrate, stretch, walk, and rest your eyes.

Features

• 120+ professional break messages
• Choose to take a break or skip
• Easy scheduling (hourly, custom intervals)
• Fully customizable
• Minimal resource usage
• Modern borderless UI

Quick Start

Requirements: Windows 7+, PowerShell 5.1+ (pre-installed on Win10/11)

1. Download and extract
2. Run src\main.ps1 to test
3. Schedule it (see below)

Auto-Schedule Setup

Task Scheduler:

1. Open Task Scheduler → Create Basic Task
2. Set trigger: Daily, repeat every 1 hour
3. Action: Start powershell.exe
4. Arguments: -WindowStyle Hidden -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "C:\path\to\Break-Reminder\src\main.ps1"
5. Enable "Run with highest privileges"

No terminal window - Runs silently in background

Customize

Messages: Edit data\messages.txt (one per line)

Settings: Edit data\config.ini

BreakAction=sleep    # Options: sleep, lock, hibernate, shutdown
EnableLogging=true

Structure

break-reminder/
├── src/main.ps1         # Main script
├── data/
│   ├── messages.txt     # Your messages
│   └── config.ini       # Settings
├── docs/                # Documentation
└── .github/             # Issue templates

Troubleshooting

Script won't run?

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser

System won't sleep? Check power settings and user permissions.

Change frequency? Edit Task Scheduler trigger interval.

Contributing

Fork → Branch → PR. See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

License

AGPL-3.0 - See LICENSE

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