OS X Users: Automatically Beemind yourself to a given location before a given time

Akrasia
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Hi folks,
I wrote a simple shell script that will create a new Beeminder datapoint if your current system time is within a given window.

If you’re on OS X, you can trigger this script with the free ControlPlane app in order to automatically Beemind yourself to a given location before a given time.

I’m using this setup to Beemind myself to the office nice and early in the morning.

Shell script:

ControlPlane app:
http://www.controlplaneapp.com/

Happy Beeminding :slight_smile:

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This script doesn’t seem to have any location awareness in it?

You still need to run it periodically, but it will only submit between certain times?

I guess you have it connected to a login script on your (stationary) work machine?

(If this is true, perhaps you could edit the post title to more accurately reflect the functionality.)

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The location awareness comes from ControlPlane app:
http://www.controlplaneapp.com

ControlPlane fires the script when my laptop connects to my office Wifi network. ControlPlane can be configured to detect location based on many evidence sources.

Second paragraph of the OP:

If you’re on OS X, you can trigger this script with the free ControlPlane app in order to automatically Beemind yourself to a given location before a given time.

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Perhaps c.f. this primer on ControlPlane:

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Thanks for the clarification and links, I was not familiar with ControlPlane.

Nice solution to a frequent problem.