Stretch and Stay Healthy with Flow

We've all heard that "Sitting is the new Smoking". The idea being that Sitting is bad for your health. Regardless of whether you're back in the office or still working from home due to COVID, the importance of getting up every now and then to stretch is still there. The problem for me is remembering to stretch. In a more advanced version of this Flow I'm about to show you, it's possible to use Power Automate (Flow) to send you a desktop notification to do just that. But for now I want to focus on the easiest way possible for you to get notified that you need to stretch. Lets get started.. but first Log into Power Automate here.

Step 1: Create a new "scheduled flow

Step 2: Give your flow a name and select a repeat frequency

Step 3: Choose a time zone and add a "Notification" event. Note that you can choose between either receiving an email, or a mobile notification. Lets choose a mobile notification.

Step 4: Add some text to your notification, then save and turn on the flow.

That's it.. Now every so often (based on whatever frequency you chose) you'll get a notification on the Power Automate app on your phone. If you haven't already, you'll need to go to the Apple App Store or Google Play store and download and log into the Power Automate app to get those notifications.

Extra Credit: If you don't like getting notified every hour, consider a variant of this flow which will get the time that the script runs and check that it falls within your business hours and only notify you then.

Note: the the Condition contains the expression; int(startOfHour(body('Convert_time_zone'),'HH'))

Thanks again

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