allows to create scheduled system notifications from the terminal
The reminder file is a symbolic link for the reminder.sh script. When a reminder is created, it runs the schedule_notification.sh script as background task. Inside schedule_notification.sh a Python script is called to determine the time offset until the requested notification. Then the schedule_notification.sh script sleeps for that time offset. Eventually it uses terminal-notifier to open the system notification on macOS or notify-send on Linux.
- Ubuntu or macOS
- Python3
The following additional dependency needs to be installed to open system notifications on Linux:
sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin
(see libnotify for details.)
The following additional dependency needs to be installed to open system notifications on macOS:
brew install terminal-notifier
(See terminal-notifier for details. Also see apple.stackexchange.com for hints how to configure the alert style to remain open until it gets dismissed.)
When the dependencies required for your system are installed, you can
install reminder by cloning the Git repository and putting its directory
on the binary path:
cd ~/src/experimental-software
git clone git@github.com:experimental-software/reminder.git
vim ~/.bashrc or vim ~/.bash_profile
PATH="~/src/experimental-software/reminder:$PATH"
reminder add 25
reminder add 25 "Take a break"
reminder add 15 "Check test results" "https://jenkins/job/test"
If a timestamp in HOUR:MINUTE format is provided, a reminder for the specific point in time will be created.
The HOUR needs to be an integer number in the range from 0-23 and the MINUTE needs the be an integer number in the range from 0-59.
reminder add 19:58 "Turn on radio"
reminder list
reminder stop <pid>