Dry Eye Reminder

Display a reminder every 20 minutes to give eyes break from screen

- Upgraded original utility (dry_eye.py)

- More structured, slightly polished version

Modified run to ~20 seconds

Inspiration

• self. I have extremely dry eyes 🫩
• 20/20/20 Rule
• available apps all seemed to be mobile based

About

dry_eye.py:

• Simple and functional
• GUI Framework/Library
  • Tkinter/CustomTkinter
• Toast style notfications
  • MacToastKit (https://github.com/daniyalmaster693/MacToastKit)
  • preferred over applescript

Migrated current version:

• GUI Framework
  • PySide6
    • Designer
• Native AppleScript notification
  • mactoast difficulty w/ packaging-pyinstaller)

Future

• add tray menu functionality
  • on close:
    • re-open from tray
    • quit
    • pause

Requirements

• requirements.txt