How the Pomodoro Technique changed my workday

Re:How the Pomodoro Technique changed my workday by burkemw3 on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @06:08PM (#10584682)

This used to be a bigger timesuck for me because I didn't always have a good interrupt to tell me that whatever process (e.g. compile) had finished.

I've since added a bash alias that helps: `alias beep="echo -e '\a'"`

`burkemw3@laptop$ compile ; beep` makes sure I don't have that excuse anymore.

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Re:How the Pomodoro Technique changed my workday by m_mueller on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @09:29PM (#10585535)

On OSX you can also let the terminal bounce until you open it again in foreground.

Edit: need to use `printf '\a'` for that

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Re:How the Pomodoro Technique changed my workday by JoachimS on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @09:34PM (#10585555)

Those bounces by iTunes for example are soo annoying and distracting. Is there any way to kill them system wide?

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Re:How the Pomodoro Technique changed my workday by m_mueller on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @02:21AM (#10586448)

It annoys me too, but in case of the terminal bouncing this is deliberate so I get back to work ;-). To disable it:

`defaults write com.apple.dock no-bouncing -bool TRUE && killall Dock`

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Re:How the Pomodoro Technique changed my workday by mkopinsky on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @12:29AM (#10586095)

I have alias foo='bar;tput bel' in my .bash_profile which does the same thing.

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Re:How the Pomodoro Technique changed my workday by cpeterso on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @08:01PM (#10585208)

On OS X, you can use `say` to shout at you when your build is finished. :)

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Re:How the Pomodoro Technique changed my workday by marvelous on Thursday November 19, 2015 @05:26AM (#10593938)

With gnome-terminal, I get a notification when a command finishes in a terminal that isn't on the foreground. It's very useful.

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