Stand Up, Lazy!

The best sitting position is the next one.

Introduction

All too often I find myself not using my fancy standing desk at all during the day. So instead of using 50 timers or spending 20 seconds to find a suitable app that reminds me regularly, I spent a good 3 hours and a good chunk of ChatGPTs' saneness to write this simple application.

I ended up with a small application that takes your preferred sitting and standing times and sends a notification whenever you should change your pose.

Usage

Either use poetry or install the dependencies from the requirements.txt. In ann effort to make things run as stable as possible across multiple platforms, I set the required python version to be at 3.13 and you require a tkinter version of 8.X. Afterward you should be able to start the application using:

python stand_up_lazy.py

Bundled application

As having to run the application through python every time, you can also bundle it into an executable. Make sure you install the build dependencies using:

poetry sync --with build

To build the bundle make sure you have pyinstaller installed and call:

pyinstaller stand_up_lazy.spec

This has only been tested on macOS