Water reminder as a service

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• Growl (App Store) and growlnotify need to be installed
• Install drink_reminder somewhere
• Change the path in org.rayners.drinkReminder.plist to point to wherever you installed drink_reminder (and be sure to chmod a+x drink_reminder so it can be executed)
• Place org.rayners.drinkReminder.plist in ~/Library/LaunchAgents and load with launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.rayners.drinkReminder.plist
• Drink

drink_reminder

#!/bin/sh

/usr/local/bin/growlnotify -s -m "Drink water" -n "Water Reminder"

org.rayners.drinkReminder.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>org.rayners.drinkReminder</string>

        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
                <string>/Users/rayners/bin/drink_reminder</string>
        </array>

        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>

        <key>StartInterval</key>
        <integer>7200</integer>

        <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
        <string>/tmp/drink.err</string>

        <key>StandardOutPath</key>
        <string>/tmp/drink.out</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Can Growl be bypassed and notifications just sent to the Notification Center?

No.

Recent versions of Growl can forward to Notification Center.

I've also been looking for an excuse to learn ObjC. A native notification center app might be it.