Mindful Coding

Mindful Coding helps you enhance your productivity and well-being by reminding you to take short breaks for window-gazing, stretching, and custom activities throughout your coding sessions.

Features

Mindful Coding offers customizable reminders to:

• Look Away: Gaze out of a window every 20 minutes (customizable) to reduce eye strain and refresh your mind.
• Stretch: Take a brief stretching break every 45 minutes (customizable) to keep your body relaxed and prevent muscle stiffness.
• Custom Reminders: Create your own reminders for any activity you want to incorporate into your routine.

Choose how you receive reminders:

• Notification: A gentle pop-up notification.
• Status Bar: A discreet message in the VSCode status bar.
• Annoying Popup: A more insistent pop-up to make sure you don't skip your break.

Getting Started

1. Install Mindful Coding from the VSCode Marketplace.
2. Configure your preferences in the VSCode settings under Extensions > Mindful Coding.
   • Set reminder intervals (minimum time is 1 minute).
   • Choose the reminder type.
   • Enable or disable specific reminders.
   • Add, edit, or delete custom reminders.

Usage

Once installed and configured, Mindful Coding runs automatically in the background. Depending on your settings, you'll receive notifications reminding you to take breaks.

• Click on the reminder or the status bar message to acknowledge and dismiss the notification.
• Use the command Open Mindful Coding Settings from the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+P) to adjust settings at any time.
• Use the command Manage Custom Reminders to add, edit, or delete your custom reminders.

Customization

Customize Mindful Coding via the settings:

"mindfulCoding.reminderType": "Notification",
"mindfulCoding.enableWindowGazeReminder": true,
"mindfulCoding.windowGazeInterval": 20,
"mindfulCoding.enableStretchReminder": true,
"mindfulCoding.stretchInterval": 45,
"mindfulCoding.enableCustomReminders": true,
"mindfulCoding.customReminders": [
  {
    "text": "Drink water",
    "interval": 30
  }
]

Custom Reminders:

• The reminder message cannot be empty.
• The minimum interval for any reminder is 1 minute.
• You can enable or disable all custom reminders using the enableCustomReminders setting.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Check out the GitHub repository for source code, to report issues, or suggest improvements.