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I own 4 alarm clocks, which I set to go off at 5 minute intervals. I also stuff small wads of paper into the alarm on-off switch, to force myself to use the snooze button. 20 minutes from the first alarm, I have 4 alarms going off a few seconds apart.
Does anyone else here use a computer desktop or online alarm clock, like the author? Note/disclaimer Im curious because this is my start-up's field.
a) My PC is too loud, I prefer sleeping with it (and everything else) turned off
b) I was using Citrus Alarm Clock on Windows ( http://www.ornj.net/citrus/ ), which faded in MP3s, but I woke up and turned it off within a couple of seconds, so it was rather a pointless feature. Less annoying than a loud buzzer though.
After waking up it takes me a while to boot - I could probably benefit from an audio reminder of what day it is and what I want to get up to do.
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It's called http://sleep.fm & it's similar to Iron Man's alarm clock in the movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXH2K2ZlrjQ and also to what you created! Right now wakes you to various types of weather forecasts, time and also the day and date. We'll be adding more sounds and options too! Please...would be great if you used our service :) Less hassle for you to create something on your own. Were all ears too for oth…
Am I right in thinking this is solely a webapp at the moment? I wouldn't really want to leave my computer on overnight. Can you recommend an app for waking from hibernation ready for your service to kick in?
Perhaps possible with http://www.twilio.com/ ?
(As a way to get information to you without leaving your computer on - but some BIOS's have a wake-on-modem option so this might work for that with some tweaking).
On a similar note, I always place my alarm clock on the opposite side of the room, which forces me to get out of bed to stop the noise.
I don't get much from productivity "tricks". I get excited for a little while, but the excitement wears off a week, maybe a few days later, and I'm back where I started. The best long-term advice I know is to just do it fucking now. If you have to get up, then get out of the bed and get ready, whether you feel like it or not. It's not what you wanted to hear, but maybe you'll feel better hearing it from Paul Graham:…
Rather than saying to yourself "I must wake up at 7", why not say "I want to wake up at at 6 so that I can take my time and get ready for work at an easy pace"?
What I'm trying to get at here is that if you find yourself not wanting to do something, or running away from something you "must" do, then there's a real, deeper reason why you feel that way. In the meantime, such "hacks"/etc are only a bandaid solution and you'll be going throught he same cycle over and over again.
I'm surprised everyone here dances around the issue rather than using brute force. I own 4 alarm clocks, which I set to go off at 5 minute intervals. I also stuff small wads of paper into the alarm on-off switch, to force myself to use the snooze button. 20 minutes from the first alarm, I have 4 alarms going off a few seconds apart.
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I used to do this when I had a desktop. I prefer waking up to Eye of the Tiger rather than annoying beeps. Now I generally use my iPhone, although the default selection of ringtones aren't much better. Actually, a cool app would be an alarm that plays music from your music library. iPhone apps are sandboxed so you couldn't do this directly, but maybe you could stream it from a remote file? Hmmm...
an iphone app would have to be running and not let the phone sleep to act as an alarm clock. this is why there are no such apps in the app store. forget to run it before you sleep and it'll never work.
Though we do have a solution were working on!
1. Young child as stated earlier 2. Dog that needs to go out NOW or will crap on the floor. 3. Sunlight streaming in through the East-facing window. Bonus if it's a subzero morning and I'm curious if there are sundogs. 4. Roosters crowing reminding me chickens want to be let out(I live on a farm). 5. Wife still too sleepy to be in the mood.
After all this I usually just yell at child(1) to put dog(2) outside and roll over and go back to sleep until wife(5) is awake enough :-)