Ding

Tired of $ sleep 4231; beep? This is a very simple solution to help with short-term time management. The beep sound uses the motherboard audio, so it works even if your speakers are muted, but not if you muted the PC speakers 😛 . Furthermore, it works wherever there's a Linux terminal, and that includes ssh sessions.

No dependencies other than Python itself 💫
Install with pip or just copy the binary somewhere in $PATH ✨
Python2 and Python3 compatible 🌟
Around 100 LOC 💥
Runs on Linux, OS X, Windows, and maybe more 🎉

Installation

$ pip install ding-ding

(ding was taken)

Alternatively, download the ding.py file and run it however you please.

$ ./ding.py in 1s

Scenarios

You want to start work after browsing the news for a bit, but you don't want to get carried away and do no work. Set a timer for 15 minutes:

$ ding in 15m

You need to leave at 17:00 and you want to have time to get ready:

$ ding at 16:45

Pomodoro technique

$ alias pomo="ding in 25m"
$ pomo

Example usage:

# Relative time
$ ding in 2m
$ ding in 2h 15m
$ ding in 2m 15s

# Absolute time
$ ding at 12
$ ding at 17:30
$ ding at 17:30:21