Take a break

A simple menu bar app which sends a notification (or a popup alert) to take a break after a given time:

Time left in minutes:

Alert:

Notification:

Installation

• install Hammerspoon - a powerful automation tool for OS X

  • Manually:

    Download the latest release, and drag Hammerspoon.app from your Downloads folder to Applications.

  • Homebrew:

    brew install hammerspoon --cask

• download github-activity.spoon, unzip and double click on a .spoon file. It will be installed under ~/.hammerspoon/Spoons folder.
• open ~/.hammerspoon/init.lua and add the following snippet:

-- take a break
hs.loadSpoon("take-a-break")
spoon['take-a-break']:setup{notificationType = 'alert'}

This app uses icons, to properly display them, install a feather-font by downloading this .ttf font and installing it.