Breaks

Get a reminder to take a break after you've been working for a while.

Add structured breaks during your focus time.

Walkthrough

How to use

Reminders to take a break

When break reminders are on, after working for a set duration you’ll see “Ready for a break?” in the focus bar. Click Yes! to start a break, In 5 min to snooze, or I’m ok to skip it, which restarts the countdown. When the break ends, the bar asks if you’re ready to get back to work.

Enabling break reminders

Break reminders are off by default. Turn on Reminder to take breaks in Settings > Focus, then choose Default time between breaks (25 minutes unless you change it) and Default break duration (5 minutes). To change the sound that marks the start and end of a break, use Pomodoro sound in Settings > Focus Sounds.

Manually taking or ending a break

You can start breaks immediately without waiting for reminders: press K, or use Take a break in the Focus Bar, Focus Mode or the menu bar. You can also manually adjust the countdown timer until your next break reminder.

Pomodoro timer view

Switch between the default timer view (counts up total work time) and the pomodoro view (counts down to next break). You can toggle between views from both the Focus Bar and Focus Mode. To start in the pomodoro view, set Default focus mode timer to Pomodoro in Settings > Focus; it appears once break reminders are on.