Lock Screen Option

While you may want to spend some of your guilt-free rest breaks on your Mac researching essential things (e.g. cat videos?), it is often better to spend a few minutes away from your Mac.

Regular computer-free rest breaks have big health benefits, such as reducing muscle tension, eye strain and thus your chances of acquiring repetitive strain injuries, neck, shoulder & back problems, etc.

If you check the “Lock Screen During Break” option, Vitamin-R will lock all your displays (some people like myself have three) to encourage you to leave your computer straight away.

At the bottom of the lock screen, you will get a chance to unlock the screen and end the break prematurely every few seconds so you don’t lock yourself out of your computer.