Alarm

A dead simple cmdline alarm with notification for Linux and Mac

Dependencies

Linux

libnotify and a notification server. If you are using a Desktop Environment, you probably already have one. If you need a stand-alone notification server for minimal system, I recommend dunst

Mac

Any version equal or higher than OS X 10.7

Installing

If you have go installed:

go install github.com/luizbranco/alarm

Or downloading the binaries

Usage

alarm title [description] [time] &

alarm Pizza 15m &
alarm "Pomodoro Timer" "Long break" 1h30m &

Notify when a long process finishes running

Since alarm time defaults to 0 seconds, you can run after any command without passing the time.

slow process; alarm done