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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.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Set an alarm in your clock app, repeat forever

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

He wants a ding, not a responses required alarm.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago

Yeah it's called Temu. You'll get them in your email and SMS inboxes too.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Clock app, make a 30 minute timer, reset when it goes off. Why do you need a whole app for that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

He wants a notification— note, no input required to end it.

[–] bob_omb_battlefield 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This sounds like the Pomodoro technique.... There are a lot of apps for that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It sorta is a pomodoro, I've been using Pomofocus.io for a while for desktop so I don't lose track of time. Though majority of my time I didn't spend on a desktop so, a mobile app that also less resourceful could be more useful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My watch buzzes me if I haven't stood up for an hour. Not what you're looking for but the only other thing I can think of is an alarm app that you can set to snooze for half an hour as many times as you see fit. I would guess something like that might exist.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Calendar. Recurring event every 30 minutes with a notification at start.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

the shortest google calendar could reoccur an event is 1 day

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That’s why you schedule 96 of them. (Please don’t do that - there has to be a better way.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The lads at Google looking at the data gathered on someone with 48 appointments every day:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Hmm. 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

That'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.
[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

For 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I hate how large the apk files are

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Or... Hear me out...

Use the default built-in alarm.

Why? Most of the non-built are somewhat blocked by phone notification controls such as do-not-disturb and other similar modes. Getting an app that has its implementation of this just right can be frustrating...

Just put a bunch of 30 min interval alarm, with a slight different ringtone than your usual alarms and you'll be golden :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Most of the non-built are somewhat blocked by phone notification controls such as do-not-disturb and other similar modes.

I'd say that could interfere with sleep, but instead of an alarm on repeat he could just have 32 timers set, allowing for 8 hours of sleep. (24-8)*16

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You could try a ship’s bell app, there are a bunch out there. They chime every half hour

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

This could be it, do you know the software's name on f-droid?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This sounds basic enough that you'd almost certainly be able to do this with Tasker. It's not FOSS though (and a paid app).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

i can't personally recommend it, as i just found it, but 'mindful notifier' on f-droid appears to do what you're looking for.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Probably 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Maybe you could try Pomodoro? It splits up your time into 25 min chunks, and then you take a break and decide what to do next.

https://todoist.com/productivity-methods/pomodoro-technique

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

You can setup a countdown timer for 30 mins and restart it every time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

If 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My 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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Any app that you can setup Macros with. I use Macrodroid on Playstore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I like Galarm, it's an alarm app that lets you set any interval you want to repeat, and you can set it to only occur during certain times. I have an alarm that goes off every two hours from 8:30am-8:30pm, for example.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I'll check it out

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I feel you. I guess what you need is a chime.

I used an hourly chimer app back when I was studying.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.caynax.hourlychime This is what I could find. Hope this helps.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can't recall an app like that but I'm willing to bet you can get a digital watch to do that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah. When I was trying to cultivate this kind of mindfulness, I used my wristwatch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Clock app set many alarms

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

There’s an app called Interval Timer on iOS.

I’ll leave figuring out what it does as an exercise for the reader

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

People using the Pomodoro technique use apps like that. That's usually 25 minutes, 5 minute break, repeated 4 times, then a 30 minute break. This is apparently a popular Android one but there are others for Windows, Chrome, MacOs, I assume Linux and more for Android as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It'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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

On my google pixel 5 with android 14 it says "this app is too old for your device". Maybe it just works because you installed it before upgrading or something?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

OpenHIIT is a workout timer I've used before. It can handle a simple auto repeating timer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Cuckoo Hourly Chime - A Clock App with Customizable Sounds and Speaking Time

Cuckoo Hourly Chime is an Android application developed by Dev Technosoft that functions as a clock app with customizable sounds and speaking time. The app is categorized under Lifestyle and is available for free.

This clock app offers a variety of features such as more than 10 inbuilt sounds that play every half and full hour, including the option to speak time with a custom title. Users can also choose the hours-only option, wake the screen to stop the chime, and stop the app from the notification bar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

ohhhhhh, I didn't download the app itself but it makes me search cuckoo in f-droid, and what do you know there is one

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.jmstudios.chibe/ last updated in 2017, wish me luck and thank you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the character White Rose from Mr. Robot. Here's the introduction scene.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

introduction scene

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Theres an app called "hourly reminder" on f-droid. First, you will have to install "f-droid" from their website.

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