{"id":16030,"date":"2019-10-29T09:07:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T13:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=16030&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=16030"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:15","slug":"tech-tip-take-a-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/29\/tech-tip-take-a-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Tip: Take a Five"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/takeafive-700x477.png\" alt=\"Take a Five landing page with social media icons on the botton\" class=\"wp-image-16298\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.takeafive.com\/\">Take a Five<\/a> is a tool that I recently found (Although, it&#8217;s been around for a few years.) to help stay productive. As a fellow human, I occasionally need a break. However, it can also be easy to lose track of time while going down a rabbit hole of Wikipedia articles, YouTube videos, or social media feeds. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takeafive.com\/\">website<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/take-a-five\/afecmogcajjpnehfeonhmljlngehiofi\">Chrome extension<\/a> makes it easy to take a break for a set period of time, then get back to what you were doing. You can also use it to help you stay focused: just choose how much time you have to get something done on a specific website and you&#8217;ll be forced to stick to it. Overwise, *poof!* it\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What are other techniques or tools that you use to stay focused?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Have a cool app, tool, or tech tip you&#8217;d like to share?&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/?view=cm&amp;fs=1&amp;tf=1&amp;to=mastersc@umich.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;Contact Chase Masters<\/a>.&nbsp;Please note that Tech Tips are personal recommendations and might not be officially endorsed or supported by U-M.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a Five is a tool that I recently found (Although, it&#8217;s been around for a few years.) to help stay productive. As a fellow human, I occasionally need a break. However, it can also be easy to lose track of time while going down a rabbit hole of Wikipedia articles, YouTube videos, or social media feeds. This\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/29\/tech-tip-take-a-five\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":9792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[651,547],"class_list":["post-16030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-development","tag-productivity","tag-tech-tip"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/UMIT-Tech-Tip-mark.png",200,140,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Chase Masters, University Library","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mastersc\/"},"uagb_comment_info":2,"uagb_excerpt":"Take a Five is a tool that I recently found (Although, it&#8217;s been around for a few years.) to help stay productive. 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