From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Dan =?utf-8?B?xIxlcm3DoWs=?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What are you doing ? Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 11:39:25 +0100 Message-ID: <87shmw2c9u.fsf@cgc-instruments.com> References: <337333362.245666.1488449019768.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <337333362.245666.1488449019768@mail.yahoo.com> <87wpc82dkx.fsf@cgc-instruments.com> <79012602.274812.1488449658463@mail.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1488451218 27405 195.159.176.226 (2 Mar 2017 10:40:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 10:40:18 +0000 (UTC) To: Help GNU Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 02 11:40:11 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cjO9Z-0006L3-K1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 11:40:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51460 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjO9f-00042y-M6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 05:40:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54352) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjO92-00042t-Je for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 05:39:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjO8x-00020q-OH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 05:39:36 -0500 Original-Received: from cgc-instruments.com ([83.169.1.125]:44450) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjO8x-00020e-I8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 05:39:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Eclipse.local (p578FE65A.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [87.143.230.90]) by cgc-instruments.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5FB56A0A1E for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2017 11:39:29 +0100 (CET) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=cgc-instruments.com; b=AEKbSNDXBt1sUAOS8Y4VVZ5WBPOf9SFDCPg4czyFAmvmdCBgnVIb2tuwHc3ywb+9NdZeul2ysQ2EXmEHG4+5p4OwmHq7CGpmc2BjUGL/upjLeenahqE9BLvuyiv3pGXpZGRKzHLmwmG2jSXUmITkRVk0lsUO6bIhFxDQN47QLgM=; h=From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; In-Reply-To: <79012602.274812.1488449658463@mail.yahoo.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 83.169.1.125 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112413 Archived-At: I guess so. However try first if any of them work, last time I used them was in the Gnome 2 days and I think I encountered some issues with Mate and i3. Concerning the timer in Emacs, you could give run-at-time a try (see https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Timers.html#Timer= s) Cheers, Dan chaouche yacine writes: > Thanks for the comment Dan, so I would have to find a way to set a timer = in emacs which would then call zenity or notify-send in some way I guess ?= =20 >=20=20 > > On Thursday, March 2, 2017 11:12 AM, Dan =C4=8Cerm=C3=A1k wrote: >=20=20 > > Not really an answer, but you could use zenity or notify-send (at least > on Linux, don't know about other platforms) to get desktop notifications > from within Emacs. > > > Cheers, > > Dan > > chaouche yacine writes: > >> Sorry if that sounds like clickbait, coming up with good e-mail subjects= can be time consuming sometimes.I sometimes wish I would have written what= I have done during the day, to keep track of my activity.=20 >> I have recently adopted a workflow where I would open a new YYYYMMDD.log= file on a daily basis and write try to keep a log of my daily activities.I= then switched to howm, but that's just a detail which helps me browse file= s more conveniently. >> After approx 15 days of using this method, I find that at some days I fo= rgot to write a lot of what I got done, or timewasters that kept me busy in= stead of doing actual work. >> I was thinking about setting some sort of reminder that would ask me, ev= ery hour (or half an hour) what I was doing ? so that I would be reminded o= f writing something in the activity log file.=20 >> >> What do you guys think ? is emacs the good place to set such a reminder = (I often use the browser so I might skip some notifications it they would o= nly show in the emacs window, I guess... but then I don't think I'd spend a= whole hour without looking at the emacs window at least once so this shoul= dn't be a problem I guess, I don't know... what do you think ?) >> -- Yassine. > > > >=20=20=20=20