A simple app run from the command line to remind you to stand up every now and then while working.

I'm not a Rust expert but have been intrigued with the language, and hence decided to write a simple utility to remind myself to stand up every now and then at my desk. If you don't have a standing desk, you might want to use this to remind you to stand and take a walk around every now and then to stretch your legs.

Remember to stand has a customisable time delay between the two different notification modes. It will pop up 'toast' notifications with a sound effect on each notification between standing and sitting mode.

When run, it will add a small icon in the system tray area (tested on macOS and uBuntu Linux 22.04).

On linux platforms the app leverages (GTK)[https://www.gtk.org/] for the UI elements.

To build you'll need to have the Rust tool chain with cargo installed.

Note: to build on uBuntu Linux systems you'll need a few dev dependencies to be installed. Make sure the following are installed:

• apt install build-essential pkg-config libgtk-3-dev librust-alsa-sys-dev

Compile into a single executable file with:

• ./make.sh build

Once built, you can run the executable directly - e.g. ./target/debug/remember-to-stand, or run directly from source with:

• cargo run

To install, build the app in release mode with:

• ./make.sh build --release

Then you can place the release executable in a convenient location. (For now you'll need to copy the system tray icon and sound file to the same location too - copy from the ./resources or the target build directory to the same path that you place the executable in).

The app will automatically create a default configuration file in your user home path: ~/.remembertostand. You can edit this file to change the notification title text messages and customise the time delays between sitting and standing modes.

For example:

{
    "config": {
        "customstandmsg": "Stand up",
        "standtimesecs": "3600",
        "sittimesecs": "3600",
        "customsitmsg": "Sit down"
    }
}