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For a "roll your own" approach I use Pushover on iOS (I know people using PushBullet on Android) and then either use the Email->Push gateway and/or I have a simple bash script "push" that I can pass a subject and message so that I can very easily setup shells scripts to send me push notifications when they finish (great for long running processes that you might run in screen). All the time in a screen I will do something like:

    cp /source/dir /target/dir && push "Moved" "Source Dir"

So that I'm not constantly checking screen or worse, forget about it and come back 1-2 days later.

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I use ifttt + pushbullet for these kinds of tasks.

Pushbullet also has an api so you can directly push notifications to your device(s).

I wouldn't mind a clone of ifttt that let me customize my own channels.

The problem with these notification tools is that if something isn't already defined for you you're kind of sol. You can sort of hack it by making the thing-you-don't-have-a-channel-for output to a channel that is supported. E.g., if you want to be notified when your local library has a book in stock, you can get your library to email you, and then filter that in gmail, and have ifttt trigger on that email to pushbullet.

Kind of a hassle. #firstworldproblems

I've been using a huginn + pushbullet for this. It definitely lets you customize your channels (you can write your own in Ruby if you need full control).

https://github.com/cantino/huginn/

I've played with Huginn before but never got it fully set up. I even started working on my own clone of it written in node.js with the idea that from the web interface you would be able to tweak the JS for each "trigger" and "action" or at a least extend them. Maybe I need to play with my own idea again or just give Huginn another shot.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing, that looks really cool.

We had tons of scripts like that at our previous startup, most of them for marketing things.

Any chance you could share this? I love pushover!

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