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Jonathan Ronzio

BreakBot - Auto add breaks to your calendar before you get overbooked

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Booked solid every day and barely have time to get a coffee or even run to the restroom? Meet BreakBot. A free Google Calendar add-on that automatically adds breaks to your day when it knows you need one! Because that meeting could have been an email a break.

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Jonathan Ronzio
Maker
You know what I realized I missed when all my meetings went remote? Breathers and breaks between them. I was feeling the overbooked calendar burn and noticed I had to keep apologizing at the start of a meeting when I had to take a few minutes to run to the bathroom or grab a coffee — because I had been booked back-to-back for 3 or 4+ hours and hadn't been able to step away from the screen. I kept thinking, "I wish my calendar would just realize that I've been in meetings for way too long and probably need to pee or eat. It should just auto-add a break after a few hours and prevent me from getting booked like this." That didn't exist, so I decided to make it. First for me. Then for my team. And now for any and all busy people out there who could really use a few more breaks. Now, BreakBot is real, it's free, and at Trainual, we rely on it daily. We hope it helps a ton of folks like me who had been losing control of their calendars. So step away, stretch, get some water, take a break. BreakBot makes sure you don't neglect yourself during even the busiest of days.
Jeffrey Siegel
@jonathanronzio I see this over and over again with people scheduling back to back meetings and never giving their brain and body a break. Your biology is not desired for endless periods of sedentary focus. You need movement and you need to let your mind unfocus. It's not counter-productive or selfish despite what your inner critic might say. It's actually vital and will enhance the periods when you are in task-mode. Thanks helping people take better care of themselves!
Irina Seng
Guys, love your product! Thank you for creating it! I always struggle with overloaded Google Calendar:(
Jonathan Ronzio
Maker
@irina_seng Thank so much Irina! We hope this helps better manage that for you!!
Aleksei Dmitrenko
Wow! Amazing! such a simple but necessary thing!
Jonathan Ronzio
Maker
@aleksei_dmitrenko Right?? Thanks Aleksei, hope it helps!
Tim Carambat
I can think of a few people who really need this because they are so overbooked and need to really take at least a few moments to center. Great idea! Your video is private though so i cant see what I am assuming is a product demo :(
Jonathan Ronzio
Maker
Thanks Tim! Looks like a bit of scheduling misalignment between YouTube and Product Hunt—it’s live now here! https://youtu.be/diVPxJrOsQg
Slava Bobrov
Cool idea, is there an option to completely automate the process without the need to set up any parameters?
Jonathan Ronzio
Maker
Thanks Slava! There is not because we found that lots of people preferred different break lengths or needed breaks at different times. Some like 10 min after every 2 hour block, some 15 after 3, some 30 after 4, etc. So we kept it flexible. Takes 15 seconds to set your parameters after install and then it’s all automated in the background