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Installation:

  1. https://github.com/bongardino/introspection
  2. Clone or Download
  3. Download as Zip
  4. Unzip
  5. Copy the entire introspection-master folder to Applications

Running :

  1. Open the Terminal application
  2. /Applications/introspection-master/ask_myself to run it
  3. You should get a popup, and a log.csv should get created in the introspection-master folder, which you can open in any spreadsheet viewer

That runs the app, but we want to put it on a timer so it runs automatically! So, we make an entry in crontab

Scheduling:

  1. Open the Terminal application (beee careful in with this tool! The commands listed here are safe but never copy / paste things into your terminal if you don't trust the source and understand what they will do!)
  2. env EDITOR=nano crontab -e to open crontab, which will probably be blank. You can type in this window!
  3. add 5 4 * * fri /Applications/introspection-master/ask_myself to this file, which will cause ask_myself to run at 4:05 every Friday
  4. Ctrl + O to save
  5. Ctrl + X to exit

Change Things!

Want to change the questions?

  1. Open the Text Edit Application
  2. File > Open > /Applications/introspection-master/ask_myself
  3. Edit the list of opts at the top of this file. to contain as many or few items as you want eg:
opts=(time_boxed
      prioritized_tasks
      limited_out_of_band_work
      had_fun
      )

to

opts=(drank_wine
      ate_cookies
      won_prizes
      )

Want to disable the timer?

  1. Open the Terminal application
  2. env EDITOR=nano crontab -e to open crontab
  3. delete the 5 4 * * fri line
  4. Ctrl + O to save
  5. Ctrl + X to exit

Want to change the timer to a different time?

  1. Change the crontab entry to something different! You can figure it out with this
    https://crontab-generator.org/