Rest Break

Rest Break is a small software application whose purpose is to help you take regular breaks from your computer in order to avoid suffering from repetitive strain injury (RSI) or other diseases.

Look for the tool in the system tray

You can find Rest Break running quietly in the system tray, hiding in the background. You can access its configuration settings by right-clicking on the tray icon. The utility also comes with support for a help manual which allows you to get an idea about how to tweak the dedicated parameters.

Remember to take breaks from your PC

Rest Break reveals information about the time (in hours, minutes, and seconds) when the next popup alert is displayed and when the next audio notification is played.
What’s more, you are given the freedom to manually set up reminders. You can specify a custom text message, enable sound notifications or show popup messages, set the time unit in minutes or seconds, as well as configure the time interval for the audio and popup notifications.
Other notable configuration settings worth being mentioned enable you to alter the sound by choosing between several preset options from a drop-down list, launch the tool at Windows startup and run it minimized, as well as preview how the popup messages look like.
Rest Break offers you the possibility to pause the timer and gain access to a calendar. The built-in calendar comes bundled with basic features for helping you jump to the next or previous month, go to the next or previous year, and view the current time displayed at the top of the calendar.
Tests have pointed out that Rest Break executes tasks quickly and without bugs. It does not eat up a lot of CPU and memory resources so you can keep it running in the system tray without worrying that it affects the overall performance of the system.

Final remarks

To sum things up, Rest Break provides an intuitive and efficient software solution for helping you set up reminders in order to remember to take computer breaks, and is ideal for rookies and professionals alike.