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I've recently added a repeating popup reminder to my Mac - it pops up a dialog box every 30 minutes that says "Are you wasting time?". The answer is allowed to

by vosper 11y ago

I've recently added a repeating popup reminder to my Mac - it pops up a dialog box every 30 minutes that says "Are you wasting time?". The answer is allowed to be "yes" sometimes - I need breaks - but the point is to make sure it's a conscious choice, and that 30 minutes of browsing or playing games doesn't turn into 2 hours.

helsinki 11y ago
How did you enable a popup to appear every thirty minutes on OSX?
- bentrevor 11y ago
  You can use `osascript` to show a popup. Depending on which shell you're using, it would look something like this: for i in {1..4}; do sleep $(expr 60 \* 30) osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to display dialog "Are you wasting time?"' done
  - cweagans 11y ago
    Or just put the osascript line in your crontab?
    - swsieber 11y ago
      You could do notifications via hammerspoon. It's probably overkill, but you could probably work in a custom active window time monitoring system.