Check Email

This project will run a Python script to check for new email messages and speak their subject lines should any messages arrive in the inbox. We will use Tasker to schedule the script to run at regular intervals as well as make it easy to run from the home screen via a Tasker widget.

Because I prefer to listen to music or podcasts while commuting, working out, or cleaning the house, I’m often wearing headphones. Any chance I can hear information without having to dig out my phone to do so is a great time-saver. Email is one of the primary reasons I carry around a smartphone, even more so than voice calls or SMS messages. Yet I find it maddening to hear an email notification chime sound during my commute, dig the phone out of my ...

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