How long are you working?

When you want to get notified every half hour how long you are already working, you can use this simple script, run it in terminal.

Notice however, that it won't save your life nor make the time go faster, but at least it will distract you with little pop-ups :)

Here's the code. It's really a one-liner, just broken into lines for better readability.

while [ 1 ]; do \
    notify-send -u low \
    -t 5000 \
    "You are already working: "$(uptime \
    | awk '{print $3}' \
    | sed 's/,//'); \
    sleep $((30*60)); \
done;

Notes:
I tested it on Cinnamon and MATE desktops, where it works. If you use something simpler like IceWM, it might not work.

Tags: #bash