notifications

Barebones MacOS notifications to your future self.

usage

Assuming the notifications script is set up to run on a regular cron, just add lines to ~/.notifications like so:

12:00 eat lunch
3:30p play ping pong

Once notifications are sent, they're removed from ~/.notifications automatically.

Add an alias to your ~/.bash_profile to make this even easier:

alias notify-me="echo $1 >> ~/.notifications"

So you can then do:

$ notify-me "8:30p go to bed sleepy head"

$ brew install terminal-notifier

To make notifications stay until ack'd - System Preferences > Notifications > terminal-notifier > check "Alerts"

Create a symlink to the notifications script:

# from ~/src/notifications
$ ln -s "$(pwd)/notifications" /usr/local/bin/notifications

Add to cron:

* * * * * /usr/local/bin/notifications

Note to edit the crontab on a mac, do crontab -e.