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Gmail to SMS - (and any loud, annoying iPad notification method)
Steven Avery:
So far, the Gmail to Pushbullet idea looks like the best, using Zapier.
x16wda:
So the idea is to get a notification on an ipad when you receive a specific email in gmail on a different machine? Is there a reason why you can't just forward the email to the ipad's email acct as high priority, and turn on appropriate notifications? (like this) Just seems like a lot of plumbing. (Not an Apple user here, maybe the notifications just don't work that well.)
Steven Avery:
So the idea is to get a notification on an ipad when you receive a specific email in gmail on a different machine? Is there a reason why you can't just forward the email to the ipad's email acct as high priority, and turn on appropriate notifications? (like this) Just seems like a lot of plumbing. (Not an Apple user here, maybe the notifications just don't work that well.)
-x16wda (August 24, 2019, 09:44 AM)
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Correct on what I want to accomplish.
Gmail "Notifications" tend to be cheezy. Little pop-ups that fade away, make no noise or little beeps, and do not even keep an easy-check history. This is true on both PC and iPad.
Maybe I missed something but one time I did take a look.
My SMS/MMS section from Talkatone is far more robust, it does give a general system msg, the history is right there of all the messages sending person by person, can included pic (not needed though for this app). They could be louder, I am writing them about the nature of sound.
Pushbullet I am checking now.
Examples of people who need robust reception, and I should ask these types:
1) A developer supporting a web-site
2) A store-manager watching for automatic orders
Note that these should be all night, unless e.g. there is specified quiet times.
wraith808:
1) A developer supporting a web-site
-Steven Avery (August 24, 2019, 12:15 PM)
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That's what I use it for. I can't access my work e-mail unless I'm on the VPN (stupid work rules), so I fire a rule whenever certain e-mails hit my inbox to forward it to my personal mail, that then notifies me by pushbullet. It works well.
Steven Avery:
1) A developer supporting a web-site
-Steven Avery (August 24, 2019, 12:15 PM)
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That's what I use it for. I can't access my work e-mail unless I'm on the VPN (stupid work rules), so I fire a rule whenever certain e-mails hit my inbox to forward it to my personal mail, that then notifies me by pushbullet. It works well.
-wraith808 (August 24, 2019, 08:14 PM)
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Can you get Pushbullet to be noisy and irritating?
My example is Alarmy. In fact, I am even thinking about using a macro to cause a new Alarmy event.
Skype calls seem to be loud, as they have good access to the Microsoft API, since they are Microsoft.
Simply a little notification ping is helpful, but not really sufficient.
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