How do I take a break?

[bynt]

I can't seem to get the concept of taking a break in super-productivity. When finishing the day, I sometimes find this in the overview:

Breaks (nr / time)
1 / 0:05

But I don't know, why the time is shown there. So I'm wondering what constitutes to a non-pomodoro-break. I guess that not tracking time helps..but what else is needed to tell the app that I was off the screen for some time? Dismissing idle time does not contribute to breaks afaics.

I found <button (click)="trackAsBreak()" [..] </button> in super-productivity/src/app/features/time-tracking/dialog-idle/dialog-idle.component.html, which seems to incorporate what I am looking for, but I don't see this button in the web app (and the self hosted (podman) app). Is this just a feature of the desktop app? If so, how do breaks show up in the web app?

@johannesjo and all contributors: thanks for this awesome piece of work

[johannesjo]

Thanks for your question. Breaks are counted when you choose "Break" or "Task & Break" from the idle dialog. You can enable idle handling from the settings, though this requires the extension to be installed for the browser version. An idle dialog is opened whenever you do not do anything at the computer (no mouse move, no keyboard interaction) after the specified amount of time.

Choosing "I already did" from the "Take a break" banner also counts as a 5 minute break.

Resetting the "Without break" timer via the little button next to it does NOT count as break.

[bynt]

That's what I looking for. I mistook the "Take a break" banner for the 'idle dialog'. I managed to get the browser extension running for the app at http://localhost:2048 (I had to choose a port different from 80 for podman) by fiddeling with background.bundle.js. I assume there will be an option to switch to 'dev mode' with the extension, but atm its options page is just empty. Anyway: thanks for the quick response!

[Ibrahim-Lethy]

Is there a way to manually take a break like pausing the timer? What if on my break I'm still on my computer so the idle pop-up won't show up and I'm taking my break before my break reminder?

[johannesjo]

Currently the only way to take a manual break is by hovering over the icon near "Without a break" in the today list and clicking it. I know that this is not ideal, but haven't found a better concept on how to deal with this so far.

[leorochael]

What about a permanent cup button at the top bar? It could also immediately jump to the next break in the pomodoro sequence.