Short Breaks

Skipping Breaks

Tiny Breaks

Big Breaks

Short break every

Long break every

During Breaks

Total number of short breaks

Total number of long breaks

This is the total number of short breaks

This is the total number of long breaks.

Ignore idle detection for tiny breaks

With this option you indicate that you want to ignore movements during breaks and want to break at fixed intervals

Timer for the short break has now been reset

Here you can set the duration of the short break.

Here you can set the duration of the long break.

Break at fixed times and ignore movement during breaks

This is the total number of short breaks which you skipped.

This is the total number of long breaks which you skipped.

Provides current times left to breaks and rsibreak status

This is the total number of short breaks which were skipped because you were idle.

This is the total number of long breaks which were skipped because you were idle.

Long Breaks

In walking around at the break, many of you had met members of your tribe. And you were talking to them.

This is an indication of how well you behaved with the breaks. It decreases every time you skip a break.

During these intermissions the audience was invited to visit an exposition of children's drawings in the gallery hosting the premiere.

But computers, they can. They don't need coffee breaks, they don't need vacations, they don't need to go to sleep at night, they don't ask for raises either.

This piece, actually, will be on display down in the Sierra Simulcast Lounge in the breaks between now and the end of the show.

Here you can set how often you want a short break. One minute means 60 seconds of movement with the mouse or typing on the keyboard.

Here you can set how often you want a long break. One minute means 60 seconds of movement with the mouse or typing on the keyboard

With this checkbox you can indicate if you want to see the popup when it is time to break. It will count down to zero, so you know how long this break will be.

There are two behavior options in rsibreak . There is an option to break at fixed intervals for fixed periods, and there is an option to reset the timers when rsibreak detects that you have been idle for the duration of a break.

If you find that you are often skipping breaks, you could decide to disable the shortcut and hide the minimize button. Remember, you choose how strictly to follow the break sequence.

Repetitive Strain Injury is an illness which can occur as a result of continuous work with a mouse and keyboard. The risk of suffering injury increases the longer users work without breaks. rsibreak simply offers reminders to take a break now and then.

With this option you select that the short breaks should not be reset when idle. This is useful, for example, when you are reading something and you do not touch the mouse or keyboard for the duration of a short break, but you still want to have a short break every once in a while.

You may find the full screen notice to take a break inconvenient at the time it appears. In this case, on the During Breaks page you can indicate that you want to use a popup a small popup near the tray will appear asking you to take a break. If you choose to ignore that, the full screen activity block will appear anyway.

Repetitive Strain Injury can occur as a result of working with a mouse and keyboard. This utility can be used to remind you to take a break now and then. It displays a random picture from a collection at specified intervals for defined durations. You can configure the pictures to show and lengths of time to show them. You might use the breaks reminders to do some stretching exercises, for example, or as a reminder to walk away from the computer for a while.

The third statistics page gives you a graphical overview of your typing skill by offering several choices. A note about the time scaling option. Whenever a session or level statistic is obtained, also the date is stored. So you can also see how your skill dropped in long training breaks and when you last practiced a certain lecture or level.