On: I hacked my clock to control my focus

[InfiniteLoup]

I did something similar with a Telegram bot in order to remind myself to look away from the screen, get up and stretch for a bit. However I started to ignore it in favor of "more pressing" tasks and now the chime has become just a faint signal somewhere on the outer edge of my awareness, too easily forgotten about. You need to condition yourself to not ignore it or it will lose its effectiveness.

[bmacho → InfiniteLoup]

It probably depends on what your goal is. To get up and stretch every n minutes, a more forceful approach could work better.

But a just an hourly subtle sound can *just remind you that time passes.