About this app

WABS Timer - WAIT - ACTIVITY - BREAK - SUCCESS

A simple application with eye-catchy design is here to help you with your productivity and efficiency.
No matter what you are doing - studying , exercising , meditating or even preparing a meal. You can always be productive.Divide your working time into small chunks and work efficiently .

Why breaks are important ?

A new study in the journal Cognition overturns a decades-old theory about the nature of attention and demonstrates
that even brief diversions(breaks) from a task can dramatically improve one's ability to focus on that task for prolonged periods.

The study zeroes in on a phenomenon known to anyone who's ever had trouble doing the same task for a long time: After a while, you begin to lose your focus and your performance on the task declines.

Some researchers believe that this "vigilance decrements," as they describe it, is the result of a drop in one's "attentional resources," said University of Illinois psychology professor Alejandro Lleras, who led the new study. "For 40 or 50 years, most papers published on the vigilance decrements treated attention as a limited resource that would get used up over time, and I believe that to be wrong. You start performing poorly on a task because you've stopped paying attention to it," he said. "But you are always paying attention to something. Attention is not the problem."

Read more about the research here :- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110208131529.htm .


Why can't you focus ?

Human mind is able to focus on any given task for up to two hours (after which it needs a 20-30 minute break to recharge). So why aren’t we living up to this potential?

Why you should not multitask ?

Think you can talk on the phone, send an instant message and read your e-mail all at once?Stanford researchers say even trying may impair your cognitive control.
Do one thing at a time to increase your focus and productivity.

Features :

Sessions - Add or edit your activity session.

Voice Notifications - Get notified during your session with voice notifications

Alert Tones - Choose from soft or sharp beep tones

Control - Get more control over the timer. Control the timer right from your notification

Customise - Choose from six built in backgrounds

Make your session colourful - Give different colours to your sessions.

App Permissions

Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows an application to read or write the system settings.
Allows an app to create windows using the type TYPE_APPLICATION_OVERLAY, shown on top of all other apps.
Allows applications to access information about networks.