Computational assistance in establishing daily preparation and reflection habits.
NOTE: MacOS Catalina introduced access restrictions, that prevent the plists from working as before. Update pending, here's some reading material.
Initiates two CRON jobs that will bring up Morning Pages (at 6AM) and Evening Pages (at 9PM). These writing prompts ask you to answer a few short predefined questions. Completing them can help to reflect and focus on your aims.
Evening Pages now include the MIT (most important task) for the coming day and open up for revisit in the morning.
Each exercises takes less than 5 minutes.
Install the dependencies from requirements.txt and run cron_pages.py (Python 3)
to register the jobs in your crontab.
Have fun! :)
In order for CRON to run, your computer needs to be switched on. You can adapt the
times easily in cron_pages.py in the following lines to fit your personal schedule:
m_job.hour.on(6) # <- change for different morning time
e_job.hour.on(21) # <- change for different evening time
Using .plist files on MacOS allows to schedule tasks that run also later, e.g.
in case the computer was asleep at the scheduled time.
The .plist files need to be loaded in order to work, and the working directory
needs to be adapted for your specific path. Change the <string> part of this:
<key>WorkingDirectory</key>
<string>/Users/martin/Documents/projects/daily/</string>
to the path where you clone this repository to.
(Also the <string> in <key>StandardErrorPath</key> needs to be set to the
same directory to receive error logs)
For easiest use of the .plist job, I would suggest to move both .plist files
into your /Users/<yourUserName>/Library/LaunchAgents/ folder (create it if it doesn't
yet exist). All .plists in this folder get automatically loaded during system startup.