After a Session will come a Short Break, and after a Short Break will again come a Session. If you activate “Work in Sessions”, the Timer will guide you through working in sessions by switching between sessions and breaks. If you want this feature to work, please make sure to click on “Allow” when prompted. Note: right after activating this option, you will be prompted to allow to send notifications. If you have “Work in Sessions” activated, the web notification will also notify you when the Short or Long Break is up. With “Web Notification” activated, every time the Timer time is up your browser will display a web notification. This is useful if for example you are working on other browser tabs and still want to have an overview of how much time is left. You can listen to a preview of the sound notification by clicking on the “Play” icon next to the text “Time End Notification”.Īctivate “Show Timer on Browser Tab” if you want the Timer time to be displayed on your browser tab. If you activate “Time End Notification”, every time the Timer time is up you will be notified by a sound notification. Click on the “Time” field, enter the desired time and hit “enter”, or simply click outside the field, to save the value. Simply hover over the Timer and click on the “Settings” icon or, alternatively, enter the Timer settings through the menu on the top right corner. Note: while the Timer is on pause, any sound is muted. If you want to stop the Timer, simply hover over the Timer time and click the “X” button. Once running, you can pause it and resume it by clicking on the “Pause” button. To start the Timer click on the “Play” button. Whenever the Timer time is up, any playing sound will automatically stop. You can use the Timer on its own or in combination with our sounds. Our Timer is designed to help you work in sessions and offers many useful features to help you get into the flow. You can read more about why working in sessions is important here. This means that we can’t focus for very long stretches of time until our brain naturally seeks a break in order to recharge.ĭividing your workday in small sessions of focused time with frequent breaks in-between, is therefore the most natural way of working while preventing burnout. The natural attention span in adults lies around 20 minutes.

Our mind is not made to focus for 8 hours straight.

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