From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Nick Dokos Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What are you doing ? Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2017 11:06:30 -0500 Message-ID: <87tw7bslx5.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.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> <87shmw2c9u.fsf@cgc-instruments.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1488484077 7822 195.159.176.226 (2 Mar 2017 19:47:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 19:47:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 02 20:47:52 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 1cjWha-0001ZI-2M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 20:47:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54239 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjWhf-0005cn-Uw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:47:55 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58091) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjWhC-0005cX-DM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:47:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjWh9-0008S7-4J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:47:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=55173 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cjWh8-0008Qx-Tf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 14:47:23 -0500 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cjTFX-0004R1-D1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Mar 2017 17:06:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 68 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZmfenF8BAHJonJP8ClbtKgu9p+4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:112414 Archived-At: Dan Čermák 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 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 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 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