The problem Organiz-Ex solves

Problem:

After the WFH and online classes have become a new normal, many of us have to sit in front of the computer table continuously for a long time, even for virtual hackathons Participants, Organizers, Mentors are continuously working for more than 12 hrs. This is definitely affecting us mentally as well as physically.
Doctors often say that we must take regular breaks to soothe our eyes and nerves, do some stretching, and above all to have some water. But while working we all forget about this and keep working without taking regular breaks and as a result, we go through huge mental stress, anxiety, back pain, headache, sore eyes. During the Tough times of the Pandemic and social isolation, many of us struggled with a bad cycle of anxiety.
Psychiatrists always prescribe that making a note of tasks to be completed helps to stay mentally focused and organized. Also, sometimes while taking breaks we forget about time and the break hampers actual work.

Solution:

Our Chrome Extension has a variety of functions and features that make it incredibly useful. It features a Task Manager, Reminders, Time Manager, Workout Timers, Music control, and so much more.
*Imagine you are doing a virtual hackathon and sitting in front of your computer desk for more than 6hrs. how do you feel? dehydrated? back pain? frustrated? I get your pain! :) So I give you Organiz-Ex *, which will -

• Regularly remind you to have some water.
• Remind you to soothe your mood by listening to some music.
• Suggest some simple yoga poses that you can do sitting on your chair.
• Come up with a note of motivation every time you need one!
• Help you to manage your tasks.
• You'll be able to track the progress of your work, study, etc.
• help you to manage your time by limiting your breaks! Just enter the duration of your break (like the duration of the episode you are watching) and choose the tab you want to get automatically closed and that's it.

Challenges we ran into

• It is undoubtedly a feature-heavy Chrome Extension and that's why it requires a lot of permissions as well as the use of Chrome APIs. So, writing the manifest file becomes a big task.
• Though it is not the first extension we have built, I never used the notification API and the tabs API before so, I had to go through all the documentation related to Chrome APIs.
• It was very interesting to implement the progress bar for the Task Manager.
• The yoga suggestions and music playlist section could be made customizable.
• Wanted to add the feature of website blocking but the context menus became complex ;(