A Pausitive release | Indielog 2

The last week I really focused on the release of pausitive a lightweight smart break reminder, why i built it and how it helped me.

Pausitive - They Why

I like stats.

I like my eyes.

I suffered from dry eyes.

When I develop i am most often in a tunnel. I completly dissolve in my work and its hard for me to make a pause. If I've build something, i test it and see some other thing which needs to adjust. This cycle repeats itself until i find a good way out to call it a day.

That's why i build Pausitive. I used a fair amount of pomodoro and timer apps to force me to make some pauses but nothing really helped.

I don't like the pomodro technique so much, or at least the productive sitewhere you need to have a task, a project to work on. Suddenly i do work for the tool not the project itself. I wanted something more passive.

Timer apps like breaktimer.app helped there, but i wanted something more.

Something that helps me to get some insight too.

I love stats and scores, and that was something missing too. So I build it myself 😄

Pauses are productive

One thing i noticed is how helpful pauses are. Because i building this tool i thought "Ok now for real keep those pauses" and it really helped.

Why?

Because i stand up, look outside (which helps with RSI for the eyes) and stretch.

I guess this wakes up my body and gets some fresh oxygen in my system.

Also it's not really stopping me to be productive. It's like a walk suddenly fresh ideas come to mind and for me, because those pauses are relative short (3min)

I refocus on the next task and don't feel overwhelmed and sinking in a tunnel with no light a head.

I built Pausitive on Flutter, which works amazingly for Windows and macOs.

It's starts when i start my notebook and tracks my screentime. And every 20min i get a notification to take a pause ♥️

I also added a Idle detection if i am away from the keyboard which accounts the time away as a break, if a certain treshold is met (5min for now).

And then i get i nice score like this:

My Score writing this post

The whole overall experience developing this app in flutter was amazing too.

So many nice tools that help you implement the features. Like launchatstartup or traymanager, to have a the app stay in the tray icon and not waste space in the taskbar 🕶️

Distribution is also amazing.

Created the landingpage with angular and the help of copilot.

You can download the Files via cloudflares r2 buckets which are amazing and its also available in the microsoft store https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PG1TSKJPDD6

I am very happy with the mvp (maybe it's even to much) and hope you like it to.

There is a 3 day trial to checkout if you like it.

For more feature wishes let me know 🤗

That's it for this indielog, monotopic about pausitive, but man i am excited about this 💫