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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You could try a ship’s bell app, there are a bunch out there. They chime every half hour
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.
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.
Self hosted n8n instance. Tie it to everything. Live the dream. Automate everything
They asked for an app for their phone, you suggested setting up a home server and hosting an application on it, all to just send a notification every 30 mins
That’s not particularly helpful
Gotta live and have fun too. I’m pretty sure anyone can see it’s not helpful. I’m sure anyone can see I’m just having a laugh. It’s an easy “move on” scenario. Or… I could get all upset.
Reminds me of the character White Rose from Mr. Robot. Here’s the introduction scene.
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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.
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
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.
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.
I hate how large the apk files are
I 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.
25MB… 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.
For 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.
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.
Any app that you can setup Macros with. I use Macrodroid on Playstore.
Calendar. Recurring event every 30 minutes with a notification at start.
the shortest google calendar could reoccur an event is 1 day
That’s why you schedule 96 of them. (Please don’t do that - there has to be a better way.)
The lads at Google looking at the data gathered on someone with 48 appointments every day:
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.
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.
Clock app, make a 30 minute timer, reset when it goes off. Why do you need a whole app for that?
Not 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.
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.
Yeah it’s called Temu. You’ll get them in your email and SMS inboxes too.
I will be using this app for a while, although it was last updated in 2017 it seems to have all the requirement I mentioned before.
Thank you everyone for your kind reply.
