![]() ![]() Then, set up Voice Match in the Assistant settings panel in the Home app, so that the Assistant recognises your voice when you set a reminder.įrom there, triggering the feature is easy. You’ll have to turn on the feature for each specific mobile device, smart speaker, or smart display you want to work with this particular feature. You can set specific reminders for yourself by date, day and time, or by location.įirst, you’ll need to turn on Assistant’s Personal Results, available in the Home app for iOS and Android. (Screenshot: Florence Ion)Ĭan’t seem to remember to complete everyday chores, pick up the dry cleaning when it’s time, or replenish your pet’s favourite food stash? The Google Assistant can help you handle all of these tasks. You can see the GeekTool set up in the picture below.Easily set a Reminder for yourself through the Assistant app, or through a smart display or smart speaker. For example if I want to see 10 messages instead of 4 the command would be It will default to 4 messages, but you can alter that by putting a dash followed by a number at the end of the command. The script is set to take an argument for how many messages you would like to see. The enter the command to run the script file in the command box Then click on the button for a new entry and select Shell as the entry type. ![]() Open System Preferences and select the GeekTool module. Once you’ve saved the file and added the execution permissions, we can now go over to GeekTool. If you’ve done everything right, you should see the subject lines and a summary of the body for first 4 messages from your inbox listed in the terminal. While you are still in the Terminal, to see if everything is working, try running the script by entering To do that, assuming you saved the file as above, open the terminal and enter Then you will have to make the script executable. I use a GeekTool folder inside my Documents folder. Once you have modified the file with your information, save it to a location with the name gmail.sh. Headarg=”-8″ # default is four email messagesĬurl –silent “$url” | grep -E ‘(title>|summary>)’ | \ Headarg=$(( $1 * 2 )) # $(( )) specifies that you’re using an equation #url=’ # Google Apps users – remember to edit your organization’s domain in domain variable above # If you are using Google Apps put a # at the beginning of the first url= line and remove it from the second url line. Width=’45′ # The number of columns wide that you want the outputĭomain=’’ # Your company domain – only needed for Google Apps users Label=’inbox’ # the GMail label that contains the email you wnat to display Username=’user%’ # username is your email address with replaced by @. # NOTE – you MUST replace the in your username email with @ or the script will fail # Thanks to Dave Taylor at for the great tutorial on accessing and parsing RSS feeds with a shell scriptĮcho “EMail” # Puts the word “Email” at the top for a header to the module I’ve listed it below but you can download the complete script here. I built the script with just a few variables for you to change. So the URL to access the feed for the inbox of a Google Apps user with a domain of is. The URL is where is web domain that you use with Google Apps and as above is the label that you want to access. So the URL to access the feed for the inbox is. To access the feed for the inbox, we can take advantage of GMail’s built in “inbox” label. You can access your feeds at where is the name of the label that you want to access. To make this script work, we take advantage of the fact that GMail conveniently provides Atom feeds for any of your labels. Then there is my reminder from and so on. The second email is some spam that GMail managed to miss. Since I’m writing this on a Sunday, I don’t have any events and the body is empty. In the example above, the first email is my schedule from GCal. Next, emails are displayed as the subject line first then below and indented slightly, the first few words from the body of the email. The word “EMail is something I add as a header to this GeekTool module. This requires a little script fu, but not that much. Intrigued by the email portion, I set out to have GeekTool display the most resent messages from my GMail inbox. I hadn’t yet seen that done with GeekTool. Even more interesting was the ability to put email on the desktop. Unlike GeekTool, they do it all in a few clicks. Like GeekTool, Statoo can put the weather, date, time, disk space, current song, and so on on your desktop. Recently the folks over at Panic announced a cool new way to display critical stats on your desktop – Statoo. ![]()
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