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

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      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.

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      7 months ago

      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.

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        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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          The iPhone built in timer app could be used this way, I’d imagine that the functionality would be similar on android.

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      the shortest google calendar could reoccur an event is 1 day

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

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        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.

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      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.
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    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.

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        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.

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          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.

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            OK, 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).

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

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    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.

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    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 :)

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      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

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    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).

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    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.

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    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.