Automatically Making Vitamin-R 3 the Front Most Application

Vitamin-R 3 provides a feature that can optionally bring Vitamin-R to the front automatically in some situations.

This feature is designed to make it easier to stick with using Vitamin-R to organize your work day into time slices.

Whenever you a trying to change your habits, it is very easy to fall back into the old patterns given the slightest opportunity. It is also all too easy to waste a lot of time getting back to the task at hand when you are on an informal break.

Version 3 of Vitamin-R allows you to take “informal breaks”. These breaks are open-ended and are very useful for situations when you tire of the highly regimented time slice - timed break - time slice - timed break regime and need a little more flexibility in organizing your time.

In order to prevent such informal breaks from becoming unproductive afternoons, Vitamin-R can gentlely prod you towards going back to working with time slices. Rather than posting reminders, it can unobstrusively bring itself and its “Define Time Slice” screen to the front, so that when you come back from a break it is ready and waiting for you.

Informal Break Options

Users often forget about using Vitamin-R altogether when they go on an informal break. Version 3 allows the informal break to be ended automatically in a variety of configurable situations, which will result in the “Define Time Slice” screen to be shown.

The informal break can be finished automatically after

  1. one hour
  2. 5 minutes of inactivity (to catch you when you are coming back to your desk)
  3. before you first use your Mac in the morning
  4. after you return from dinner

Define Time Slice Options

The automatic ending of the informal break interacts with the “Bring to front” options in the “Define Time Slice” screen.

The “Define Time Slice” screen can make Vitamin-R the front-most application:

  1. after 5 minutes of inactivity
  2. after 1 hour
  3. after breakfast
  4. after lunch

You can toggle these options using the “sliders” popup button on the right of the “Define Time Slice” screen title.

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