Comment by SebastianKra
1 year ago
I'm definitely in the market for this, as my current favourite App, Intermission, hasn't been updated in two years. I already prefer the wording and visual design of your App. I also prefer that pre-break reminders are visually distinct from notifications, as this made me eventually ignore regular notifications. The difficulty with these apps, is that you must interrupt the user in just the right way so that they don't get annoyed or ignore you after the 100th time.
However, there are two things that I'm missing from Intermission:
1. Show the remaining time directly in the menu bar.
2. Pause the app for a few hours or until the end of the day - this is useful for meetings. I usually forget to re-enable the timer afterwards.
I also liked how Intermission has all options in a single non-hierarchical menu. Again, the use case for this is when I realise that I forgot to turn it off during a meeting and quickly need to snooze it.
Thanks for replying! You're right - I had to experiment with the pre break reminder a lot before I found the right balance (both visuals and the timing). I've published an update which will allow you to see the time remaining in menu bar (can be enabled in settings), and LookAway will now auto pause when you're in a meeting or on a call. It'll also resume as soon as the call is ended.
Let me know if you have any other feedback! Happy to hear :)