They say time is is the most valuable resources. Right now, time feels quicker for me these days and I often lose track of it.
Because of that the app should have the same purposes as an old clock, it plays a little “ding” or a notification every 15 minutes, 30 minutes, or 1 hour, or as long as I like.
Preferably installable with f-droid, can I have an app recommendation.
If the others suggested aren’t quite right for you, you might try looking for an interval timer app. These are generally used for fitness, but it seems to me that type of setup might do exactly what you want if you just set up a “workout” that has a single 30 min interval and repeats.
Yeah it’s called Temu. You’ll get them in your email and SMS inboxes too.
It seems Tasks.org let’s you set reminders on tasks that can repeat every minute (if you go to the custom option). Maybe have a play with that? It’s on F-droid.
People using the Pomodoro technique use apps like that. That’s usually 25 minutes, 5 minute break, repeated 4 times, then a 30 minute break. This is apparently a popular Android one but there are others for Windows, Chrome, MacOs, I assume Linux and more for Android as well.
Yeah. When I was trying to cultivate this kind of mindfulness, I used my wristwatch.
I feel you. I guess what you need is a chime.
I used an hourly chimer app back when I was studying.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.caynax.hourlychime This is what I could find. Hope this helps.
Home Assistant will easily do this
Self hosted n8n instance. Tie it to everything. Live the dream. Automate everything
They asked for an app for their phone, you suggested setting up a home server and hosting an application on it, all to just send a notification every 30 mins
That’s not particularly helpful
Gotta live and have fun too. I’m pretty sure anyone can see it’s not helpful. I’m sure anyone can see I’m just having a laugh. It’s an easy “move on” scenario. Or… I could get all upset.
Automate by llamalabs well let you do this pretty easily
For this kind of thing, I use Godot and write a quick and ugly one-off app. That way it works exactly how I imagine and I just send myself the APK over messenger and install it :P
Although it would be a joy to implement in hardware.
I hate how large the apk files are
I never actually noticed. It’s always been like 25MB for stuff I do. Is that a lot?
Takes a huge amount of storage on my production machine to store the various libraries to produce that file, to be fair. That is a minor pain.
25MB… Is that a lot?
Depends, I guess. For a Godot app? Probably about average.
For a quick and dirty native app? This timer app I use is 160kB. Less than 1% in size.
For having an empty scene with nothingness. Ye. Thats too much.
Another one commented that its 160kb for a native app. So damn. I guess I need to learn how to do native then.
But generally scrolling through F-Droid, I see many useful apps that are below 10mb or even below 5mb with many features. Which is why I see Godot apk files as too large. But yeah, its a game engine for games. With a good UI designing feature too.
OK, fair enough! I did not know that the size varied so much. I’ll probably still keep using it though – the Python-esque syntax means I don’t have to learn a bunch of stuff I don’t have the time to right now, and I’m very bad at UI, so it’s a good solution for me :)
Incidentally, a lot of my best apps are very small as well. Under 1k usually (AVR Assembly).
Cuckoo Hourly Chime - A Clock App with Customizable Sounds and Speaking Time
Cuckoo Hourly Chime is an Android application developed by Dev Technosoft that functions as a clock app with customizable sounds and speaking time. The app is categorized under Lifestyle and is available for free.
This clock app offers a variety of features such as more than 10 inbuilt sounds that play every half and full hour, including the option to speak time with a custom title. Users can also choose the hours-only option, wake the screen to stop the chime, and stop the app from the notification bar.
ohhhhhh, I didn’t download the app itself but it makes me search cuckoo in f-droid, and what do you know there is one
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.jmstudios.chibe/ last updated in 2017, wish me luck and thank you
Reminds me of the character White Rose from Mr. Robot. Here’s the introduction scene.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Calendar. Recurring event every 30 minutes with a notification at start.
Hmm. That is disappointing.
Edit: what if you had a daily event with reminders every 30 minutes. You’d have to manually add the reminders, but you would only have to do that once and it’d still be one event.
That’s why you schedule 96 of them. (Please don’t do that - there has to be a better way.)
I use Due on iOS for repeating timers/reminders where I need it to be persistent and annoying because the task is important. Like paying rent, or physical therapy “homework” I kept forgetting. The persistence might be good if you’re worried you’ll just dismiss a normal alarm or forget to start the next timer.
