[andrewanimation]

Hello,

I'm looking for a nice timing/scheduling program that will do things like play a certain sound file and/or give a pop-up notification every hour, or whatever I set it to, because I'd like to be reminded every hour to close my eyes for 5 minutes, as a method of keeping my eyes from being sore from prolonged computer use. (I'm a novelist and use the computer about 14 hours a day)

I've been using a simple timer program, but it isn't scheduled, it requires me to start it up every time, and I very often forget to reset it. So I'm looking for software that's a bit more advanced.

For example, I'd like it to play a sound file or show a notification every 20 minutes to tell me to focus my eyes on something far away for a minute, then I'd like it to play a different sound file or notification every 1 hour for when I have to rest my eyes for 5 minutes, after which point it'll tell me to get back to work, and it'll be like it automatically starts the next 1 hour countdown, because it'll all be scheduled.

Basically, I wanna be a robot. :D

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

Are you running windows? Theres a scheduled tasks program in the control panel thatll do all that.

[Cew27]

have you tried scripts ...
sleep (5000)
msgbox (0,"wake up", "stop working")
sleep (5000)
run("bat out of hell.mp3")

[andrewanimation]

I'm not sure how hard or easy scripts are to work with, as I've never used them before, but so far it looks like Scheduled Tasks might do the trick, albeit in a different way than i had anticipated, because it just uses 2 unique repeating tasks. i'm going to see if what i've set up there does the job (opens text file every 21 minutes saying to look elsewhere, and a different text file every 63 minutes saying to rest my eyes, which gives me 1 minute for looking elsewhere and 3 minutes for shut-eye, and 21 x 3=63, so it works in itself, i suppose)

thanks for your help

[Cew27]

lol lemme try that !

sleep(126000)
run("elswhere.txt")
sleep(387000)
run("rest.txt")