Is there an app that could send me a notification every 30 minutes?

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.

JoBo ,

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.

Fint0034 OP ,
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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

Phoenix3875 ,

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

actual_patience ,

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

rufus , (edited )

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.

mspencer712 ,

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.

Saigonauticon ,

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.

ReakDuck ,

I hate how large the apk files are

Saigonauticon ,

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.

GroteStreet ,

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.

ReakDuck ,

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.

Saigonauticon ,

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).

Pulptastic ,

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

MadBob ,

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.
Fint0034 OP ,
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the shortest google calendar could reoccur an event is 1 day

etchinghillside ,

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

MadBob ,

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

https://feddit.nl/pictrs/image/e5d43244-ab69-417b-9c7c-edc4e6214ced.webp

Pulptastic ,

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.

Astongt615 ,

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

sibloure ,

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.

kzhe ,

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

getseclectic ,

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.

intensely_human ,

There’s an app called Interval Timer on iOS.

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

smileyhead ,

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.

0_0j ,
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Neat... I Appreciate this

clearleaf ,

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

baatliwala ,

This sounds basic enough that you'd almost certainly be able to do this with Tasker. It's not FOSS though.

IronyHammer ,

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

misnad ,

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

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