For people who sit down at 9 and look up at 4

Your desk day, handled.

Water, eye rest, stretching and breathing reminders that follow how long you have actually been working — not how long the clock has been running. Tap Start my day; DeskMoss does the clock-watching from there.

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The one idea that makes it work

Timers count active minutes, not clock minutes.

“Stretch every 2 hours” means two hours of you actually working. Sit in a meeting for ninety minutes, go for lunch, take a call — none of it pushes you toward a stretch reminder, because you were not hunched over the keyboard. A heartbeat runs once a minute, asks Chrome whether you have touched the keyboard or mouse in the last three, and only then advances the clock.

An ordinary timer Dismissed
At the desk In a meeting At the desk

It hits two hours mid-meeting and interrupts something you cannot leave. You swipe it away — and the one you swipe away is the one you stop trusting.

DeskMoss Taken
At the desk Paused — not working At the desk

The counter stops when you do, so the reminder lands when you are back at the keyboard and can actually stand up. That is the difference between a reminder you obey and one you dismiss.

Active work Away from the keyboard Progress toward the next break

What it watches

Six things a desk quietly takes from you.

Every one is on, off, retimed or re-durationed in settings. The defaults below are what you get on day one.

Water

8 glasses · every 45 min

Thirst arrives after dehydration, not before. Tap any glass to log it — or tap a full one back down to fix a mis-count.

Eye rest

4 min · every 3 hours

Screens cut your blink rate by more than half, and there is a muscle inside your eye that never fully lets go at close range.

Stretch

3 min · every 2 hours

Six animated desk-safe moves. No floor, no equipment, nothing that looks strange in an open-plan office.

Posture check

one tap · every 50 min

Ears over shoulders, feet flat, screen at eye level. It costs a single tap, which is the whole point of it.

Breathing reset

4·4·4·4 · every 4 hours

Box breathing with a bubble to follow. A long exhale is the fastest lever you have on a racing heart rate.

Stand and move

every 90 min

Standing up for a minute an hour beats any chair. Off by default — switch it on if you want it.

Off by default

The break window

A break you can actually follow.

Timed breaks open a focused coach window — a countdown ring, a guided routine, a breathing bubble. The window appears the moment a reminder fires, but the clock does not start until you say so: a countdown that starts on its own is one you are already losing.

Stretch
3:00 ready
Move 1 of 6

Neck release

Drop your right ear toward your right shoulder. Let the weight of your head do the work. Halfway through, switch sides.

Start Skip
Neck release Your head gains weight on your neck the further it drifts toward the screen.
Shoulder rolls Shoulders creep toward your ears while you concentrate, then stay there for hours.
Chest opener Typing holds you closed and rounded forward. This is the exact opposite movement.
Seated twist Rotation is the one direction a desk never asks for.
Wrists and fingers Typing works your forearm in one narrow range for hours. Both palm directions.
Seated fold A few hours in a chair leaves your lower back and hamstrings short.

The figures are animated rather than drawn still, because a picture tells you the shape of a stretch — the loop tells you the tempo. About 6KB of inline SVG for the set, and no requests.

Water

Thirst arrives after dehydration, not before.

A nudge every 45 active minutes, eight glasses a day, both adjustable. The card carries its own countdown so you can see it coming — and it swaps for Time for a glass, Goal reached or Paused till… rather than counting down to something that will not happen.

8glasses, by default
250mlper glass, editable
45mof real work between
Time for a glass of water Hydration dips before thirst does. One glass, right now.
Water next in 28m 5 of 8 · 1250 ml

Refresh me

The one screen you open on purpose.

Every other reminder is scheduled — DeskMoss decides you need something and interrupts. This is the button you press yourself, when the afternoon has gone sideways. Say which kind of low you are in, and it offers something that fits the next ninety seconds of your life.

Every option states what it costs and where it works. “90 sec · works in a meeting” is the difference between a good idea and a usable one. And the last screen asks whether it actually helped — once something has worked for you more often than not, it starts being offered first.

Reminders
Saved · Drink water · every 45m of work

Managing it

One screen. No save button.

Every reminder gets a card: on or off, how often, how long. Working hours are two times to the minute — and they are allowed to wrap past midnight, so night shifts work properly rather than approximately.

Settings save as you go, and the confirmation names what it saved — Saved · Drink water · every 45m of work — so you can check the change landed without looking back at the slider you just let go of.

Try it nowsee a break before you earn one
Night shifts22:00 → 06:00 works

Your day, scored

A number you cannot game.

Three nutrients — Body, Mind and Flow — and every action has a hard daily cap. Tapping a water glass twelve times is easier than one three-minute stretch, so twelve glasses still score exactly what eight do. The cap is the whole mechanism.

5 glasses today Hydration dips before thirst does, which is why this is a count and not a feeling.
3 eye breaks Looking far away is the only thing that asks the focusing muscle inside your eye to let go.
2 times you moved Moving loosens what sitting tightens, and it is one of the quickest levers on a flat mood.
6 day streak Four weeks of showing up, plus badges and a lifetime total, all on the dashboard.

It opens from the popup, a notification, or settings. It does not take over your new tab page.

Privacy

Nothing leaves your machine.

A wellness tool that phones home about your working hours is not a wellness tool. DeskMoss has no server to phone, because it has no server.

No network calls There is no analytics, no telemetry, no tracking and no remote code. The extension never makes a request.
Local storage only Settings, history, streaks and anything you type live in Chrome's local storage on your own device.
No account, ever Nothing to sign up for and nothing to sign in to. Install it and press Start my day.
It cannot read your tabs No host permissions. DeskMoss has no idea what site you are on, and cannot ask.
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Start today

You will look up at 4pm either way.

The only question is whether you had water, stood up, and let your eyes focus on something further than 60cm away first.

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