How to make half-hour notifications?

[mikeymikec]

In my experience it's all too easy to fritter away time uselessly, and it's not easy to keep a log of for example what may have started off as a productive task ("I'm just going to look something up quickly"). My first thought was the old 'chime' function (I think that's what it was called) on digital watches when you can set them to beep at you twice at the start of every hour. I also thought of the old grandfather-style clocks that do a chime every 15 minutes in a way that just from the sound alone that you know how far past the hour it is.

There's probably a smartphone app to do this. I'm trying one out now but I think it's meant to be for looks only (ie. "oh isn't that quaint, a grandfather clock", probably needs to have the focus and the phone to be on at the time).

I'm just wondering what other solutions people here use for a similar purpose.

 

[lxskllr]

Not something I need, but if I couldn't find a libre solution, I'd try my hand at scripting something, and executing it through termux

https://staging.f-droid.org/search?q=termux

 

[mikeymikec]

True, I do just need it when I'm on the computer really.

 

[lxskllr]

True, I do just need it when I'm on the computer really.

Oh, termux is an android app. It's a console based linux environment. I thought you wanted something for a phone. A computer should be easy. especially if you're on gnu/linux.

 

[IronWing]

Mechanical clocks are nice for this but they get pretty expensive to keep running in the long term as the parts (hand carved by German monks out of meteorite bronze, apparently) wear out.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Mechanical clocks are nice for this but they get pretty expensive to keep running in the long term as the parts (hand carved by German monks out of meteorite bronze, apparently) wear out.

You kids and your fancy new "clocks." We had sextants and that's the way we liked it.

 

[mikeymikec]

I found an app named 'BlipBlip' which is nicely configurable (I configured it to do half-hour bleeps but only between 3PM and 9PM).