Get a periodic email that reminds you to reconnect with people. 👭 👫 👬
Build the app into an uberjar (standalone jar) using Leiningen. Run:
$ lein uberjar
and you will find the executable in target/uberjar/pinger-version-standalone.jar.
Configure it by creating a file in your user home directory ~/.pinger which contains
an email on the first line and the email password on the second line. Future versions
of pinger should support GPG decrypting of the password.
sampleemail@sampledomain.com
samplepassword
You should also have a list of people you want to periodically ping. Any plaintext file with names should work.
John Doe
Jane Doe
pinger will pick the person from this list that you've pinged the least (or a random one if
you have just started), send you an email to remind you to ping this person, and add a counter
next to its name in the list.
Run it passing the list of people as an argument using:
$ ./pinger list_of_people_to_ping
or this if you are in a non-UNIX environment.
$ java -jar pinger-version-standalone.jar list_of_people_to_ping
I recommend to run it using a cronjob every week (or whatever frequency you prefer!)
- GPG-decrypt email password
- Packaging (rpm/deb/homebrew)
- Script to add pinger to crontab
Copyright © 2015 Daniel Lobato García
GPLv3 licensed, see LICENSE for details.