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 11:11:10 +0100 Message-ID: <87wpc82dkx.fsf@cgc-instruments.com> References: <337333362.245666.1488449019768.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <337333362.245666.1488449019768@mail.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1488449563 19781 195.159.176.226 (2 Mar 2017 10:12:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 10:12:43 +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 11:12:39 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 1cjNiu-0004bm-Vb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 11:12:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51373 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjNj1-0006Jw-3s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 05:12:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47609) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjNhg-0005Th-4I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 05:11:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjNhb-0000b9-2j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 05:11:20 -0500 Original-Received: from cgc-instruments.com ([83.169.1.125]:48380) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjNha-0000ay-S6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 05:11:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Eclipse.local (p578FE65A.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [87.143.230.90]) by cgc-instruments.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E7386A0A1E for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2017 11:11:10 +0100 (CET) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=cgc-instruments.com; b=p4rhNFJvCm5FM7kdmLO9OHqmKIOmsH2CdDydBwpMsnchSsaNw8j+Xtf/JLAB/N/PmTCffsLrZQHjffRWllH7zItTi8/nBMtWErRgoo2x/+IaIzJ24zkoWmCZYM1vqKBTbjSerOIllcVE98eVI4XxMJVQ4wia4s2bpMYzcarlOTk=; h=From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type; In-Reply-To: <337333362.245666.1488449019768@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:112411 Archived-At: 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. > 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.