Desktop notifications that display some summary text from a random Wikipedia page that belongs to any of the categories you are interested in.
- notify2 (install via pip)
- wikipedia (with category members query, provided by yours truly) (also install via pip)
Example tidbit:
Tidbit: Plants
Plantlet
Plantlets are young or small plants. Many plants such as
spider plants naturally create stolons with plantlets on the
ends as a form of asexual reproduction.
tidbit - shintoo 2018
tidbit creates a desktop notification displaying the first two sentences from
the summary section of a Wikipedia page belonging to one of the categories
listed in ~/.tidbit_categories
tidbit display one tidbit notification
tidbit add <category> add <category> to list of categories
tidbit remove <category> remove <category> from list of categories
tidbit list list all categories
tidbit background <interval> display one tidbit notification every
<interval> seconds
tidbit fact do not send any notification, instead print to tty
tidbit help print this help
The Wikipedia portal on Categories can be found here.