ongoing recommendation for workrave

[kaberett]

Would you like a small friendly sheeplightbulb to look disappointed in you when you don't take regular typing breaks? workrave might be just the thing for you!

This message brought to you by Just How Bad typesetting is for (also) setting off RSI flares, which is quite clearly in no small part because every time I'm prompted to take a microbreak I go "but if I just finish this sentence/paragraph--"

-- and so I am enforcing, rather more than the hyperfocus would actually like, taking Breaks When Prompted.

(Today I have gone through chapters 1-3 for consistency of style and first on-screen proof-reading, and have naturally caught a whole bunch of typos. Tomorrow: 4 and 5, maybe, with breaks for typesetting chapter 6...)

Comments

[alexseanchai]

no but I probably need one

[azurelunatic]

It was on the list of Officially Recommended Software at old-work in Silly Valley.

[rmc28]

I credit it with saving my career: I developed quite bad RSI in my first year working for the university (two decades ago, omg) and I was stumbling along with Dragon Dictate and trying to write code by voice, and someone - I don't even remember who - recommended it to me, and it was life-changing. Workrave stopped it getting worse, and I think rock climbing (which I took up around the same time) helped roll back some of the damage, because it was a lot of using my hands in a lot of different, non-repetitive ways and building up strength generally.

(my RSI still exists but is essentially managed, so long as I use Workrave, and small keyboards, and rest my hands when they hurt, etc etc)

[kaberett]

<3 it works really well for me.