20-20-20 for your eyes, pomodoro for your focus, or your own work and rest lengths. It counts down here, changes the tab title so you can see it from any other tab, and asks your browser to notify you when a break starts and ends. Nothing is sent anywhere.
It is a plain work-and-rest cycle that runs in the browser tab. Pick a preset, press start, and the ring counts down your work block. When it reaches zero the page turns into a full-screen rest screen, the tab title says Break, your browser shows a notification if you allowed it, and a chime plays if you left it on. When the rest is over it flips back to work and, with repeat on, keeps cycling until you press reset.
Three presets cover most of what people search for:
Custom takes any work and rest length. The tally at the bottom counts breaks you actually took today and is stored only in this browser.
Why a tab and not a chat message? A micro-break every twenty minutes is twenty-seven prompts in a working day. That belongs on the screen you are staring at, silently, where a glance is enough. It does not belong in your messages, and NagMeLater deliberately never sends one that often. The reminders it is built for are further down this page.
A tab timer only works while you are at the tab. The breaks that matter most for a long day are the ones that happen away from the desk, and those need a nudge that reaches your phone wherever it is:
Not a bite at the keyboard. A reminder at 12:30 on weekdays that says "eat lunch away from the desk", and a "done" reply that builds a streak, turns the intention into a record.
Ten minutes outside at three o'clock does more for the second half of the day than any micro-break. It also never happens by itself.
The one break with a hard consequence the next morning. A message at 10 PM that says "screens off" arrives on the device you are holding, which is exactly the point.
And for people who have no desk at all, nurses, drivers, retail, warehouse, the phone is the only screen there is, and a break reminder on WhatsApp is the one that works. Those are two to four messages a day, set once, repeating until you stop them.
💬 Set the three away-from-desk breaks on WhatsApp
Opens WhatsApp with the three reminders pre-typed. Edit the times, hit send. First 7 days free, no app.
A micro-break belongs on the screen in front of you, silently, which is what this timer is for. The breaks that change a day happen away from it: lunch away from the desk, the afternoon walk, screens off at 10. Text NagMeLater once, "remind me every weekday at 12:30 pm to eat lunch away from the desk", and it repeats until you stop it, with a streak when you reply done. Reminders, habits, to-dos and a daily coach, inside the WhatsApp you already live in.
Try NagMeLater free First 7 days free. No signup, no app.Every 20 minutes of screen work, look at something about 20 feet away for 20 seconds. It is the popular form of the advice eye doctors give for digital eye strain: look up from the screen and focus on something distant regularly, and blink more. The 20-20-20 preset on this timer does exactly that, with a twenty-second rest screen every twenty minutes.
Yes, as long as this tab stays open. The countdown is written into the tab title, so you can read it from any other tab, and a browser notification announces each break if you allowed notifications. Closing the tab stops the timer; nothing runs in the background.
No. It is a web page. There is no extension, no download and no account. Your preset, the three checkboxes and today's break count are saved in this browser only, so they are there when you come back.
Yes. Choose Custom and type the work minutes and rest minutes. Rest can be as short as fifteen seconds (0.25) for a 20-20-20 style micro-break or as long as an hour for a proper lunch.
Because that would be twenty-seven messages a day, on the wrong screen. A micro-break belongs in front of your eyes, silently, which is what this timer is for. NagMeLater is for the breaks a timer cannot reach: lunch away from the desk, the afternoon walk, screens off at night, and the shifts with no desk at all. Those are two to four reminders a day, set once, with a streak when you reply done.
It runs in any modern browser, phone included, but a phone browser pauses timers when the screen locks, so it suits a phone propped on a desk more than one in a pocket. For reminders that reach a phone in a pocket, use the WhatsApp reminders above.
No. The timer is entirely client-side. The only network request the page makes after loading is if you tap the WhatsApp button, which opens WhatsApp on your own device with a message pre-typed.
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