Show HN: Lightweight time-management CLI tool

atrudeau 9 years ago |

I recently started using Timetrap ( https://github.com/samg/timetrap) and find fantastic. Covers a lot of corner cases while still being incredibly simple to use.

rojobuffalo 9 years ago | |

But does it beep at you? That actually looks awesome though--thanks for sharing that.

kickingvegas 9 years ago |

On Unix/Linux you have "at" http://www.tldp.org/LDP/GNU-Linux-Tools-Summary/html/schedul.... For the Mac, however "at" is disabled (for battery saving reasons? or for working with laptops that sleep?) but you can turn it on.

luxpir 9 years ago |

Excellent. Will investigate. Currently using espeak to call out pomodoros (among other things - weather, motivational quotes, reminders) at set times. But of course you tune out after a while. This might be a more flexible solution.

EDIT: CLI is the future :)

luxpir 9 years ago | |

OK, based on the comment thread I'm now trying this:

    sleep 25m; espeak "Take a break!"; notify-send "Get a cup of coffee, stretch, ignore existential angst"

plicense 9 years ago |

Consider using \b instead of printing a new line every time. I've a huge scrollback configured and it can silently crash my terminal given a large enough wake time!

liviu- 9 years ago | |

Great point -- there's a pull request addressing this issue just now: https://github.com/liviu-/ding/pull/4

rojobuffalo 9 years ago |

This made me smile. I usually pop open the chrome timer or use my phone. I also just started trying out Strict Timer (chrome extension). As simple as these are, I think you've managed to reduce the motion necessary from the user to its absolute lowest level for a parameterized timer. Thanks for the tool.

grewil 9 years ago |

Emacs package Chronos: https://libraries.io/emacs/chronos

pep_guardiola 9 years ago |

Sweet! I saved the link. My intention is to take a look at the source code and then write my own ding-ding cli tool. It will be fun and I think it will give me a nice feeling when using it.

Thanks for the inspiration!

ams6110 9 years ago |

> Around 100 LOC

Say what? To ring the bell after sleeping based on a parameter?

lgas 9 years ago | |

To be fair it does slightly more than that (relative times, absolute times, etc) but it is somewhat ironic considering that it advertises itself as an alternative to one liners like "sleep 4231; beep".

tingol 9 years ago | | |

You can do sleep 15m; beep

duaneb 9 years ago | | |

One of the reasons to use this is to avoid beep, which may not even be enabled on your machine.

tingol 9 years ago | | |

Use echo '\a' that's what this program uses anyway... It's literally sleep $1; echo '\a' or you can use at if you want exact time.

michaelcampbell 9 years ago | | |

Yes, anything can be done in a different way.

swiley 9 years ago | | |

X11 bell almost never works for me.

zokier 9 years ago | |

GNU sleep is around 150 loc, and does significantly less...

glandium 9 years ago | | |

GNU programs are not a reference. They must have usage(), and handle --help and --version. Even /bin/true.

  coreutils-8.25$ wc -l src/true.c
  80 src/true.c

liviu- 9 years ago | | |

Ding has `--version`, and a help message too :P

To be honest, a big chunk of it is just handling user input and attempting to provide useful error messages.