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Show HN: Lightweight time-management CLI tool

72 points by liviu- 10y ago

luxpir 10y ago
Excellent. Will investigate. Currently using espeak to call out pomodoros (among other things - weather, motivational quotes, reminders) at set times. But of course you tune out after a while. This might be a more flexible solution. EDIT: CLI is the future :)
- luxpir 10y ago
  OK, based on the comment thread I'm now trying this: sleep 25m; espeak "Take a break!"; notify-send "Get a cup of coffee, stretch, ignore existential angst"
atrudeau 10y ago
I recently started using Timetrap ( https://github.com/samg/timetrap https://github.com/samg/timetrap) and find fantastic. Covers a lot of corner cases while still being incredibly simple to use.
- rojobuffalo 10y ago
  But does it beep at you? That actually looks awesome though--thanks for sharing that.
kickingvegas 10y ago
On Unix/Linux you have "at" http://www.tldp.org/LDP/GNU-Linux-Tools-Summary/html/scheduling.html http://www.tldp.org/LDP/GNU-Linux-Tools-Summary/html/schedul.... For the Mac, however "at" is disabled (for battery saving reasons? or for working with laptops that sleep?) but you can turn it on.
ams6110 10y ago
> Around 100 LOC Say what? To ring the bell after sleeping based on a parameter?
- lgas 10y ago
  To be fair it does slightly more than that (relative times, absolute times, etc) but it is somewhat ironic considering that it advertises itself as an alternative to one liners like "sleep 4231; beep".
  - tingol 10y ago
    You can do sleep 15m; beep
    - duaneb 10y ago
      One of the reasons to use this is to avoid beep, which may not even be enabled on your machine.
      - tingol 10y ago
        Use echo '\a' that's what this program uses anyway... It's literally sleep $1; echo '\a' or you can use at if you want exact time.
        michaelcampbell 10y ago
        Yes, anything can be done in a different way.
        swiley 10y ago
        X11 bell almost never works for me.
- zokier 10y ago
  GNU sleep is around 150 loc, and does significantly less...
  - glandium 10y ago
    GNU programs are not a reference. They must have usage(), and handle --help and --version. Even /bin/true. coreutils-8.25$ wc -l src/true.c 80 src/true.c
rojobuffalo 10y ago
This made me smile. I usually pop open the chrome timer or use my phone. I also just started trying out Strict Timer (chrome extension). As simple as these are, I think you've managed to reduce the motion necessary from the user to its absolute lowest level for a parameterized timer. Thanks for the tool.
pep_guardiola 10y ago
Sweet! I saved the link. My intention is to take a look at the source code and then write my own ding-ding cli tool. It will be fun and I think it will give me a nice feeling when using it. Thanks for the inspiration!
plicense 10y ago
Consider using \b instead of printing a new line every time. I've a huge scrollback configured and it can silently crash my terminal given a large enough wake time!
- liviu- 10y ago
  Great point -- there's a pull request addressing this issue just now: https://github.com/liviu-/ding/pull/4 https://github.com/liviu-/ding/pull/4
grewil 10y ago
Emacs package Chronos: https://libraries.io/emacs/chronos https://libraries.io/emacs/chronos

72 points by liviu- 10y ago

Excellent. Will investigate. Currently using espeak to call out pomodoros (among other things - weather, motivational quotes, reminders) at set times. But of course you tune out after a while. This might be a more flexible solution. EDIT: CLI is the future :)

luxpir 10y ago
OK, based on the comment thread I'm now trying this: sleep 25m; espeak "Take a break!"; notify-send "Get a cup of coffee, stretch, ignore existential angst"

atrudeau 10y ago

I recently started using Timetrap ( https://github.com/samg/timetrap https://github.com/samg/timetrap) and find fantastic. Covers a lot of corner cases while still being incredibly simple to use.

rojobuffalo 10y ago
But does it beep at you? That actually looks awesome though--thanks for sharing that.

kickingvegas 10y ago

On Unix/Linux you have "at" http://www.tldp.org/LDP/GNU-Linux-Tools-Summary/html/scheduling.html http://www.tldp.org/LDP/GNU-Linux-Tools-Summary/html/schedul.... For the Mac, however "at" is disabled (for battery saving reasons? or for working with laptops that sleep?) but you can turn it on.

ams6110 10y ago

> Around 100 LOC Say what? To ring the bell after sleeping based on a parameter?

lgas 10y ago
To be fair it does slightly more than that (relative times, absolute times, etc) but it is somewhat ironic considering that it advertises itself as an alternative to one liners like "sleep 4231; beep".
- tingol 10y ago
  You can do sleep 15m; beep
  - duaneb 10y ago
    One of the reasons to use this is to avoid beep, which may not even be enabled on your machine.
    - tingol 10y ago
      Use echo '\a' that's what this program uses anyway... It's literally sleep $1; echo '\a' or you can use at if you want exact time.
      - michaelcampbell 10y ago
        Yes, anything can be done in a different way.
      - swiley 10y ago
        X11 bell almost never works for me.
zokier 10y ago
GNU sleep is around 150 loc, and does significantly less...
- glandium 10y ago
  GNU programs are not a reference. They must have usage(), and handle --help and --version. Even /bin/true. coreutils-8.25$ wc -l src/true.c 80 src/true.c

rojobuffalo 10y ago

This made me smile. I usually pop open the chrome timer or use my phone. I also just started trying out Strict Timer (chrome extension). As simple as these are, I think you've managed to reduce the motion necessary from the user to its absolute lowest level for a parameterized timer. Thanks for the tool.

pep_guardiola 10y ago

Sweet! I saved the link. My intention is to take a look at the source code and then write my own ding-ding cli tool. It will be fun and I think it will give me a nice feeling when using it. Thanks for the inspiration!

plicense 10y ago

Consider using \b instead of printing a new line every time. I've a huge scrollback configured and it can silently crash my terminal given a large enough wake time!

liviu- 10y ago
Great point -- there's a pull request addressing this issue just now: https://github.com/liviu-/ding/pull/4 https://github.com/liviu-/ding/pull/4

grewil 10y ago

Emacs package Chronos: https://libraries.io/emacs/chronos https://libraries.io/emacs/chronos