For the past couple of years, I’ve been using AntiRSI - a free OS X app - to methodically enforce wrist-rests after a couple of painful spells with RSI. AntiRSI functional and clever (detecting time spent too-near the trackpad, and building natural breaks in typing into calculations of when you need to take a break). But it has a problem: it’s not the most beautiful app out there. It’s free, and useful sure, but it’s always something I’ve been keen to better and build an app of my own [the irony of an RSI-sufferer sitting in front of their Mac to code their own Anti-RSI app isn’t lost on me].
That is, until Shawn Blanc tweeted about BreakTime this afternoon. I’ve been using it for a short while this evening, and whilst it lacks some of the smartness of Anti-RSI it certainly kicks AntiRSI in terms of aesthetics. In testing this evening, I’m pretty impressed with it. My favourite feature: the ability to easily re-schedule a break - in a minute, in five minutes.
If you’re an AntiRSI user, or simply thinking that you ought to install something to regiment keyboard breaks, I’d recommend you check out BreakTime. It’s $2.99 on the Mac App Store.
Posted on Wednesday August 17th, 2011
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