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Ask HN: How can I get full screen meeting reminders on a Mac?

1 pointsby cneesover 2 years ago
I use google calendar and zoom for remote work, and I&#x27;m in a role with a lot of meetings. Embarrassingly, I&#x27;m showing up very late to a lot of them.<p>If I see a meeting coming up, I usually join early to avoid missing it. But if a meeting is running long into the next meeting, or if I forgot I had back-to-back meetings and go grab a snack or pick up a project, it can be 5-15 minutes before I notice I&#x27;m supposed to be there. I get notifications from my calendar in the top left of my screen, and sometimes coworkers remind me in slack, which also goes to a top left notification, but I&#x27;m effectively blind to these notifications when I&#x27;m working or talking to someone, so I&#x27;m looking for something that forces me to break focus.<p>I can&#x27;t rely on audio being on or on having my phone on me. Ideally, I want a popup in the middle of my screen or a full screen takeover. Is there something I can run on my Mac that will do that for me?

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Someoneover 2 years ago
I don’t have Ventura installed, but <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;25357376&#x2F;getting-notification-list-from-os-x-notification-center" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;25357376&#x2F;getting-notific...</a> may still work.<p>Basically, a program running in the background can use file system events to detect when the database storing notifications is updated, and then query it.
bombcarover 2 years ago
pmset displaysleepnow<p>this is a terminal command that forces the screens off (and depending on how you have it set, requires you to login again, it&#x27;s like closing the lid).<p>That might be somehow something you can work into it.<p>Also check out Automator: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;guide&#x2F;automator&#x2F;welcome&#x2F;mac" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.apple.com&#x2F;guide&#x2F;automator&#x2F;welcome&#x2F;mac</a> as that can probably do something too.