Always looking for better ways to increase our happiness and being a devoted follower of the great 3.60 happiness movement (proposed by the even greater Sergio), I found a program that enhances the typing break utility included in Gnome.

I’m talking about Workrave, a little tool that will help you taking rest breaks and thus preventing Repetitive Strain Injury.

Major features:

• Take micro pauses (i.e., rest 30 seconds each 5 minutes or so).
• Take rest breaks (3 minutes each hour in the original 3.60 proposal).
• Set a daily limit. Use this if you don’t want to work more than 12 hours a day 😎
• Workrave tells you how to do some exercises (take a look at the the screenshot below!).
• Statistics. This way you’ll be able to know if you have taken more breaks than you should 😉
• Network support. Working in two or more computers at the same time? No problem! Workrave shares the timing information if you want to.

In case all this wasn’t enough, it is translated into several languages. So there’s no excuse! It’s not a matter of laziness^(*): it’s a matter of health. Join the 3.60 movement now!

(*) No, we Galicians are not lazy. Read paragraph 5.