WalkAway

When working at the computer for long periods of time, your body might start to ache or get sore. This is why you should always take frequent breaks, and WalkAway can remind you of that.

One you have installed the utility, it automatically gets minimized and you can find it in the system tray. In other words, it does not clutter your taskbar and sits discreetly in the system tray unless you want to disable or configure it.

Alternatively, you can pause it for 30 minutes or 1-4 hours, by simply right-clicking the icon of WalkAway and selecting the corresponding option. On the downside, you might be a little bit thrown off that double clicking the system tray icon does nothing (only right-clicking does).

You can either stick with the preset configuration of WalkAway or you can adjust its reminding parameters to suit your preferences.

More specifically, you can get break reminders every 60 minutes, by default, but you can easily alter the number of minutes. You also get to customize the displayed message to ensure it is as convincing as it can be.

The application also allows you to choose for how long this message should be visible on your screen.

If you are away from your keyboard at the moment WalkAway shows the reminder, you shouldn't worry about missing it. It basically locks the desktop until you manually press the button 'I'm back!'.

To sum it up, WalkAway is a nice, basic application for getting regular break reminders. You can set it to launch at Windows startup, so you do not need to manually do it every time.

Yet, you cannot set it to play some music during your break, or even an audio message that would be a little more aggressive in persuading you that taking a break is actually a good thing for you.