Or without being fancy about it here, you could save this script as a
stay-open application, and it will warn you when you start it, and
every hour thereafter. To stop it, you just quit in the dock.
on idle
display dialog "Take a Rest"
return 1 * hours
end idle
On Jun 6, 9:27 am, Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No easy way to do this in QS.
>
> Lingon is a free GUI editor to create new launchd
> serviceshttp://lingon.sourceforge.net/
>
> If you're just looking for "take a rest" functionality you might try
> one of
> these:http://osx.iusethis.com/app/antirsihttp://osx.iusethis.com/app/timeout
> I've never used either of them.
>
> Howard
>
> On Jun 6, 2008, at 3:03 AM, Patrick wrote:
>
> > I was just about to suggest cron as well.
> > Apple mention it here:
>
> >http://lists.apple.com/archives/AppleScript-Users/2004/May/msg00714.html
>
> > On Jun 6, 7:49 am, Eris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> This is probably better done with something like cron/launchd or
> >> iCal.
> >> I'd have to read the manual for launchd to be able to do this myself,
> >> though.
>
> >> On Jun 6, 2:11 am, Angelo Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>> Hi,
> >>> I have seen tips on how to display a text reminder using run after
> >>> delay..., that's a count down timer. I'd like to have a way to
> >>> display
> >>> the text every hour, say, QS will display this 'take a rest...'
> >>> every
> >>> hour. possible? Thanks
>
> >>> Angelo
