A tool to help you stay healthy while working long hours on the computer.
After a visit to my optometrist and after asking him for suggestions on how to cope with my decreased vision, he suggested to have a break every few minutes to let my eyes rest. I find it hard to remeber to do such a thing when working with full concentraction on something. So like a good developer - I decided to do something about it.
- Capture every event from mouse or keyboard to capture "Computer activity".
- Present a desktop notification after a long period of continious activity.
- Configuration for how much is it too long.
- Configuration for inactivity timeout.
Please note that this application was only built and tested on Linux
Having said that - Should not encounter that many problems with mac or windows, so any contribution will be welcomed.
./hack/build.sh
Will output the binary to out/hworker
Configuration file path can be supplied through the environment variable HWORKER_CONFIG.
If the environment variable is not set hworker will try to read the file from the relative path ../config.yaml.
An example for the configuration file format:
activity-monitors:
- max-activity-time: 15s
inactivity-time: 5s
message-format: message1 %s
- max-activity-time: 30s
inactivity-time: 5s
message-format: message2 %s
max-activity-time: # After how much time should pop up the notification.
inactivity-time: # Inactivity timeout. If user did not have any activity during that time, the timer for the notification will be reset.
message-format: # The message that will be shown to the user for continious activity. Use %s to place the max-activity-time value inside the message.
Feel free to contact me for any suggestion, contribution, question, or anything else.
Contact me on: ocherfas@gmail.com