About Work Hours Bar

What is Work Hours Bar?

Work Hours Bar is an intuitive visual time tracking tool that transforms how you perceive and manage your workday. Our browser extension creates a sleek progress bar that shows exactly how much of your workday has elapsed and how much productive time remains, turning abstract time into a concrete, motivating visual experience.

Key Features

• Visual Progress Tracker: A live progress bar showing how much of your defined work day has elapsed
• Countdown Timer: An additional progress bar for custom countdown durations to track focused work sessions
• Customizable Work Hours: Set your own start and end times for your work day
• Time Information: Shows total work hours and remaining time
• Percentage Display: Clearly indicates the exact percentage of your work day that has passed
• Minimalist Design: Clean, unobtrusive interface that works on any website
• Persistent Settings: Your work hour preferences are saved across browser sessions

Why You Need Work Hours Bar

• Combat Time Blindness: Most people struggle with time perception while working. Hours slip by unnoticed, leading to missed deadlines, poor work-life balance, and productivity anxiety. Work Hours Bar makes time visible and tangible, helping you develop better time awareness naturally.
• Increase Motivation Through Progress: There's something deeply satisfying about watching progress bars fill up. This extension leverages that psychological reward by showing your daily advancement in real-time.
• Perfect for Remote Workers: Working from home often means losing the natural time cues that office environments provide. Work Hours Bar restores that temporal framework, giving remote workers the time awareness they need to maintain productivity and healthy boundaries.
• Enhance Focus with Time Boxing: The integrated timer functionality supports focused work sessions. Whether you're following the Pomodoro Technique, timing specific tasks, or managing meeting lengths.
• Build Better Time Habits: Regular exposure to accurate time visualization naturally improves your internal time estimation abilities.

How It Works

The extension adds a subtle progress bar to the bottom of every webpage you visit. The bar fills up as your work day progresses from your set start time to end time. The default work hours are set from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, but you can easily customize this to match your own schedule.

The countdown timer allows you to set a specific duration (5, 10, 15, 25, 30, 45 minutes or custom) for focused work or breaks. When active, a second progress bar appears, showing the countdown progress. When the timer ends, you'll receive a notification.

Privacy and Security

Your privacy is important to us. The extension does not collect any user data, does not communicate with external servers (except for our authentication service for Pro users), and only requires the "storage" and "notifications" permissions to save preferences and show countdown alerts.

Core features work locally with no account required, while Pro features require a simple, secure account for feature activation and cross-device synchronization.