👁️ iCare

🖥️ A dead-simple, no-frills desktop blink reminder. Nothing fancy — just a tiny timer that tells you to blink.

No accounts. No cloud sync. No analytics. No bloat. Just a small always-on-top widget with a retro seven-segment countdown. When it hits zero, it flashes red — you blink, take a short break, and the cycle starts again. That's it.

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📸 Screenshots

Countdown	Blink alert & break	Stretch break & alert	Settings

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✨ Features

• 🟢 Retro LCD aesthetic — green-phosphor seven-segment digits with ghost segments, scanlines, and a blinking colon
• 👁️ Eye break — Countdown → Alert (flash red, wait for click) → Eye break (rest your eyes) → repeat
• 🚶 Stretch break — an optional, independent reminder to stand up and walk away from the keyboard, with its own interval and duration. Starts with a ping prompt and ends with a series of pongs to call you back
• ⚙️ Configurable — eye break interval & length, stretch break interval & length, start on login
• 🔔 Alert effects — optional shake animation, ping sound on alert, and pong sound when a break ends
• 🖱️ System tray — show/hide, pause/resume, settings, quit
• 💻 Cross-platform — macOS and Windows
• 🪶 Lightweight — frameless, transparent, always-on-top, no dock/taskbar clutter

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🚀 Getting Started

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Run in development mode
npm run dev

# Build only (no launch)
npm run build

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📦 Packaging

# 🍎 macOS (DMG)
npm run package:mac

# 🪟 Windows (NSIS installer)
npm run package:win

🍎 macOS — "app is damaged" warning

macOS Gatekeeper blocks unsigned apps. After installing iCare from the DMG, run:

xattr -cr /Applications/iCare.app

Then open the app as normal. This only needs to be done once.

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🏷️ Creating a Release

Releases are built automatically via GitHub Actions. To create a new release:

1️⃣ Tag the version

# Update the version in package.json first, then:
git add package.json
git commit -m "chore: bump version to 1.0.1"
git tag v1.0.1
git push origin main --tags

2️⃣ Create the GitHub release

Using the GitHub CLI:

gh release create v1.0.1 --title "v1.0.1" --notes "Release notes here"

Or via the GitHub web UI:

1. Go to https://github.com/faesel/icare/releases
2. Click Draft a new release
3. Choose the tag you just pushed (e.g. v1.0.1)
4. Add a title and description
5. Click Publish release 🎉

3️⃣ What happens next

Once the release is published, the CI workflow (.github/workflows/release.yml) automatically:

• 🍎 macOS job — builds on macos-latest, packages a .dmg, and uploads it to the release
• 🪟 Windows job — builds on windows-latest, packages an .exe NSIS installer, and uploads it to the release

Both jobs run in parallel. After a few minutes the built artefacts will appear as downloadable assets on the release page.

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⚙️ Configuration

Click the ⚙ icon on the widget (always visible, top-right) or right-click the tray icon → Settings.

Setting	Default	Description
👁️ Eye break every	20 min	How often you're reminded to blink and look away
😌 Eye break lasts	20s	How long the eye rest period lasts
🚶 Enable stretch breaks	Off	Turn the walk-away-from-keyboard reminder on or off
⏰ Stretch break every	1 hr	How often you're reminded to stand up and stretch
🧘 Stretch break lasts	10 min	How long the stretch break lasts
🔁 Start on login	Off	Auto-launch iCare when you log in
📳 Shake widget	On	Shake the widget on alert
🔔 Ping sound	On	Audible ping when a break is due
🔕 Pong sound	On	Audible pong when a break ends (×5 for stretch breaks)

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📄 Licence

This project is licensed under the MIT Licence.