They say time is is the most valuable resources. Right now, time feels quicker for me these days and I often lose track of it.
Because of that the app should have the same purposes as an old clock, it plays a little “ding” or a notification every 15 minutes, 30 minutes, or 1 hour, or as long as I like.
Preferably installable with f-droid, can I have an app recommendation.
DirigibleProtein ( @DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone ) 34•3 months agoSet an alarm in your clock app, repeat forever
Keith ( @kzhe@lemmy.zip ) 2•3 months agoHe wants a ding, not a responses required alarm.
Astongt615 ( @Astongt615@lemmy.one ) 18•3 months agoClock app, make a 30 minute timer, reset when it goes off. Why do you need a whole app for that?
sibloure ( @sibloure@beehaw.org ) 2•3 months agoNot the OP, but I used to work at a retail job where we couldn’t touch our phones or have them out visible. There was no clock around either so having my phone speak the time aloud from my pocket every 30 minutes helped me get through the day until the shift ended.
Also automating this would remove the element of imperfect human functioning. If you had to open up your phone and press snooze every 30 minutes, that takes a few seconds or minutes if you’re busy, and then the timer would start to lag behind and no longer be in sync with a clock’s time and thus lose its utility. And how exhausting would it be to keep on top of that task for 16 hours every single day without any mistakes allowed ever? My ADHD brain is getting anxiety just thinking about managing that.
Keith ( @kzhe@lemmy.zip ) 1•3 months agoHe wants a notification— note, no input required to end it.
Pulptastic ( @Pulptastic@midwest.social ) English12•3 months agoCalendar. Recurring event every 30 minutes with a notification at start.
the shortest google calendar could reoccur an event is 1 day
etchinghillside ( @etchinghillside@reddthat.com ) 5•3 months agoThat’s why you schedule 96 of them. (Please don’t do that - there has to be a better way.)
MadBob ( @MadBob@feddit.nl ) 4•3 months agoThe lads at Google looking at the data gathered on someone with 48 appointments every day:
Pulptastic ( @Pulptastic@midwest.social ) English1•3 months agoHmm. That is disappointing.
Edit: what if you had a daily event with reminders every 30 minutes. You’d have to manually add the reminders, but you would only have to do that once and it’d still be one event.
MadBob ( @MadBob@feddit.nl ) 1•3 months agoThat’s what I’d do, but I’d make sure:
- I could hide the events in my calendar so I could still see the real events I want to keep track of, or
- to use a different calendar for this particular thing, or
- to assign them their own colour which I can easily ignore.
Saigonauticon ( @Saigonauticon@voltage.vn ) English7•3 months agoFor this kind of thing, I use Godot and write a quick and ugly one-off app. That way it works exactly how I imagine and I just send myself the APK over messenger and install it :P
Although it would be a joy to implement in hardware.
ReakDuck ( @ReakDuck@lemmy.ml ) 3•3 months agoI hate how large the apk files are
Saigonauticon ( @Saigonauticon@voltage.vn ) English1•3 months agoI never actually noticed. It’s always been like 25MB for stuff I do. Is that a lot?
Takes a huge amount of storage on my production machine to store the various libraries to produce that file, to be fair. That is a minor pain.
GroteStreet 🦘 ( @GroteStreet@aussie.zone ) English2•3 months ago25MB… Is that a lot?
Depends, I guess. For a Godot app? Probably about average.
For a quick and dirty native app? This timer app I use is 160kB. Less than 1% in size.
ReakDuck ( @ReakDuck@lemmy.ml ) 1•3 months agoFor having an empty scene with nothingness. Ye. Thats too much.
Another one commented that its 160kb for a native app. So damn. I guess I need to learn how to do native then.
But generally scrolling through F-Droid, I see many useful apps that are below 10mb or even below 5mb with many features. Which is why I see Godot apk files as too large. But yeah, its a game engine for games. With a good UI designing feature too.
Saigonauticon ( @Saigonauticon@voltage.vn ) English1•3 months agoOK, fair enough! I did not know that the size varied so much. I’ll probably still keep using it though – the Python-esque syntax means I don’t have to learn a bunch of stuff I don’t have the time to right now, and I’m very bad at UI, so it’s a good solution for me :)
Incidentally, a lot of my best apps are very small as well. Under 1k usually (AVR Assembly).
rufus ( @rufus@discuss.tchncs.de ) 6•3 months agoProbably called cockoo clock or pomodoro timer, or interval timer. A quick search shows there are multiple such apps, I haven’t tried them so I’m not sure which to recommend.
Dave ( @Dave@lemmy.nz ) 5•3 months agoIt seems Tasks.org let’s you set reminders on tasks that can repeat every minute (if you go to the custom option). Maybe have a play with that? It’s on F-droid.
I’ll check it out
Actual ( @actual_patience@programming.dev ) English5•3 months agoAny app that you can setup Macros with. I use Macrodroid on Playstore.
juliebean ( @juliebean@lemm.ee ) 5•3 months agoi can’t personally recommend it, as i just found it, but ‘mindful notifier’ on f-droid appears to do what you’re looking for.
MrZee ( @MrZee@lemm.ee ) English4•3 months agoIf the others suggested aren’t quite right for you, you might try looking for an interval timer app. These are generally used for fitness, but it seems to me that type of setup might do exactly what you want if you just set up a “workout” that has a single 30 min interval and repeats.
eatham 🇭🇲 ( @eatham@aussie.zone ) English4•3 months agoClock app set many alarms
mspencer712 ( @mspencer712@programming.dev ) 4•3 months agoI use Due on iOS for repeating timers/reminders where I need it to be persistent and annoying because the task is important. Like paying rent, or physical therapy “homework” I kept forgetting. The persistence might be good if you’re worried you’ll just dismiss a normal alarm or forget to start the next timer.
Extras ( @Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today ) 4•3 months agoCan’t recall an app like that but I’m willing to bet you can get a digital watch to do that
MajorHavoc ( @MajorHavoc@programming.dev ) 2•3 months agoYeah. When I was trying to cultivate this kind of mindfulness, I used my wristwatch.
nieceandtows ( @nieceandtows@programming.dev ) 3•3 months agoYou can setup a countdown timer for 30 mins and restart it every time.
smileyhead ( @smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•3 months agoMy comment won’t be anything helpful, there are some propositions already.
I just want to give my thought and maybe rant a little, because my Linux nerd mind is screaming to me how this could be done on Linux:In crontab:
*/30 7-16 * * 1-5 notify-send "Text"
Sending a notification every 30 minutes from monday to sunday from 7am to 4pm with one line of code not needing to create new app.
Mr_Vortex ( @Mr_Vortex@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•3 months agoIt’s not on F-Droid, but I use BlipBlip for this exact thing. It’s an old app sadly, but still works on Android 14. There’s a ton of customization options which you might find useful.