Feature: Unscheduled breaks

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I will note that I was happily reading Twitter, but FocusMe kicked me off, so now I am posting this idea and then getting back to work :smiley:

I don’t find the breaks very useful because they are too rigid. I have a flexible schedule and can’t really predict when I will want or need a break. Also, if I’m working hard on something and focused, it is very counterproductive to take a break just because it’s time!

I’d like to see an “unscheduled breaks” feature. For starts, perhaps an option for N breaks of length X. If I allow four 15-minute breaks in the workday, I can then go to FM, hit “take a break”, and start the 15-minute counter. That would be so much more useful than trying to anticipate when I will need a 15 minute break during the day! Eventually, you might even want to allow for one long (lunch) break and a couple of short breaks. But any increased flexibility in the breaks would be very welcome.

thanks!

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Hi gribley,

Are you talking about the automatic breaks option? These can currently be cancelled by entering the relevant password you set e.g. custom or random string. We plan to add the ability to postpone breaks for X minutes up to X times as well, so maybe that would help.

In addition we want to allow having multiple breaks working at the same time, so you could set that you need a 1 hour lunch break between 12 and 3pm for example.

Thanks