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Super simple, but I could not find something that did this for me online. Making a system beep script would be great except I can't get any system beeping to work on my laptop with linux.

Suggestions or pull requests (style, functionality, or otherwise) welcome.

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I've used a similar app that made a beep after a certain number of minutes, but I made a habit of ignoring it after a week.

Now I use Breaktime (only for OSX), which inserts itself in the system tray part of the screen and displays a big overlay when "time's up". It is more effective because it forces me to get up.

You could build a browser notification that gets the focus of the user.

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