* What are you doing ? [not found] <337333362.245666.1488449019768.ref@mail.yahoo.com> @ 2017-03-02 10:03 ` chaouche yacine 2017-03-02 10:11 ` Dan Čermák 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: chaouche yacine @ 2017-03-02 10:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Help GNU Emacs 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. 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 files more conveniently. After approx 15 days of using this method, I find that at some days I forgot to write a lot of what I got done, or timewasters that kept me busy instead of doing actual work. I was thinking about setting some sort of reminder that would ask me, every hour (or half an hour) what I was doing ? so that I would be reminded of writing something in the activity log file. 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 only 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 shouldn't be a problem I guess, I don't know... what do you think ?) -- Yassine. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: What are you doing ? 2017-03-02 10:03 ` What are you doing ? chaouche yacine @ 2017-03-02 10:11 ` Dan Čermák 2017-03-02 10:14 ` chaouche yacine 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Dan Čermák @ 2017-03-02 10:11 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Help GNU Emacs 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 <yacinechaouche@yahoo.com> 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. > 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 files more conveniently. > After approx 15 days of using this method, I find that at some days I forgot to write a lot of what I got done, or timewasters that kept me busy instead of doing actual work. > I was thinking about setting some sort of reminder that would ask me, every hour (or half an hour) what I was doing ? so that I would be reminded of writing something in the activity log file. > > 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 only 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 shouldn't be a problem I guess, I don't know... what do you think ?) > -- Yassine. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: What are you doing ? 2017-03-02 10:11 ` Dan Čermák @ 2017-03-02 10:14 ` chaouche yacine 2017-03-02 10:39 ` Dan Čermák 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: chaouche yacine @ 2017-03-02 10:14 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Dan Čermák, Help GNU Emacs 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 ? On Thursday, March 2, 2017 11:12 AM, Dan Čermák <dan.cermak@cgc-instruments.com> wrote: 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 <yacinechaouche@yahoo.com> 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. > 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 files more conveniently. > After approx 15 days of using this method, I find that at some days I forgot to write a lot of what I got done, or timewasters that kept me busy instead of doing actual work. > I was thinking about setting some sort of reminder that would ask me, every hour (or half an hour) what I was doing ? so that I would be reminded of writing something in the activity log file. > > 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 only 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 shouldn't be a problem I guess, I don't know... what do you think ?) > -- Yassine. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: What are you doing ? 2017-03-02 10:14 ` chaouche yacine @ 2017-03-02 10:39 ` Dan Čermák 2017-03-02 16:06 ` Nick Dokos 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Dan Čermák @ 2017-03-02 10:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Help GNU Emacs 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#Timers) Cheers, Dan chaouche yacine <yacinechaouche@yahoo.com> 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 ? > > > On Thursday, March 2, 2017 11:12 AM, Dan Čermák <dan.cermak@cgc-instruments.com> wrote: > > > 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 <yacinechaouche@yahoo.com> 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. >> 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 files more conveniently. >> After approx 15 days of using this method, I find that at some days I forgot to write a lot of what I got done, or timewasters that kept me busy instead of doing actual work. >> I was thinking about setting some sort of reminder that would ask me, every hour (or half an hour) what I was doing ? so that I would be reminded of writing something in the activity log file. >> >> 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 only 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 shouldn't be a problem I guess, I don't know... what do you think ?) >> -- Yassine. > > > > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: What are you doing ? 2017-03-02 10:39 ` Dan Čermák @ 2017-03-02 16:06 ` Nick Dokos 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Nick Dokos @ 2017-03-02 16:06 UTC (permalink / raw) To: help-gnu-emacs Dan Čermák <dan.cermak@cgc-instruments.com> writes: > 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#Timers) > > > Cheers, > > Dan > > chaouche yacine <yacinechaouche@yahoo.com> 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 ? >> >> >> On Thursday, March 2, 2017 11:12 AM, Dan Čermák <dan.cermak@cgc-instruments.com> wrote: >> >> >> 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 <yacinechaouche@yahoo.com> 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. >>> 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 files more conveniently. >>> After approx 15 days of using this method, I find that at some days >>> I forgot to write a lot of what I got done, or timewasters that >>> kept me busy instead of doing actual work. >>> I was thinking about setting some sort of reminder that would ask >>> me, every hour (or half an hour) what I was doing ? so that I would >>> be reminded of writing something in the activity log file. >>> >>> 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 only 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 shouldn't be a >>> problem I guess, I don't know... what do you think ?) >>> -- Yassine. >> >> >> >> > > appt.el (part of emacs) allows you to use your diary to send notifications of pending appointments: (info "(emacs) Appointments") -- Nick ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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