Show HN: Lightweight time-management CLI tool

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Post by liviu- » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 7:22 PM UTC

Show HN: Lightweight time-management CLI tool
github.com

Re: Show HN: Lightweight time-management CLI tool

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Post by luxpir » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 8:30 PM UTC

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 :)

Re: Show HN: Lightweight time-management CLI tool

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Post by atrudeau » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 9:25 PM UTC

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

Re: Show HN: Lightweight time-management CLI tool

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Post by kickingvegas » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 9:46 PM UTC

On Unix/Linux you have "at" 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.

Re: Show HN: Lightweight time-management CLI tool

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Post by ams6110 » Mon, Oct 03, 2016, 11:35 PM UTC

> Around 100 LOC

Say what? To ring the bell after sleeping based on a parameter?

Re: Show HN: Lightweight time-management CLI tool

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Post by rojobuffalo » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 12:05 AM UTC

atrudeau wrote: post #3

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

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

Re: Show HN: Lightweight time-management CLI tool

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Post by lgas » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 12:06 AM UTC

ams6110 wrote: post #5

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

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".

Re: Show HN: Lightweight time-management CLI tool

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Post by rojobuffalo » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 12:09 AM UTC

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.

Re: Show HN: Lightweight time-management CLI tool

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Post by tingol » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 12:14 AM UTC

lgas wrote: post #7

ams6110 wrote: post #5

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

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".

You can do sleep 15m; beep

Re: Show HN: Lightweight time-management CLI tool

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Post by duaneb » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 12:30 AM UTC

tingol wrote: post #9

lgas wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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".

You can do sleep 15m; beep

One of the reasons to use this is to avoid beep, which may not even be enabled on your machine.