Plays a sound every 3-4 minutes to remind of short breaks during learning or working. Based on the idea that such short interruptions (doing nothing for about 10 seconds) promote the anchoring and consolidation of knowledge. The brain processes what has been learned about 20 times faster during these breaks. Consolidation of human skill linked to waking hippocampo-neocortical replay
Start: Execute ./randompause.sh start to start the timer. It runs in the background and randomly plays a sound.
Stop: The timer is stopped with ./randompause.sh stop.
use a alias in your shell configuration file to make usage even easier: alias rp='/PATH/TO/SCRIPT/randompause.sh'