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I thought it would be fun to see a list of ways to have Mathematica notify you when a long evaluation completes. There are a few posts up already that address specific methods, given below, but not any open invitation to list ways one is or could be notified.

Previously mentioned methods:

Make a noise (such as Beep[] or Speak["All finished."])

Customize the front end (to notify using Growl)

Send an email using SendMail[...] that can include results in the body or as attachments.

What else do people do? I'm interested in both the practical (what people routinely use) and the fanciful.

A note to the moderators: this thread was previously closed, citing the email link as answering the question. It doesn't; it just gives details how to automatically send email. This post is about new/previously unposted methods.

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  • Moderators: I'd like to make this a community wiki. Also feel free to give it a better tag than evaluation. – GregH Mar 31 '14 at 00:42
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    I just listen for the cooling fans to spin down... – ciao Mar 31 '14 at 00:54
  • @RunnyKine: Thanks for link, very neat answer there from rm-rf! – ciao Mar 31 '14 at 01:10
  • @rasher, I like your "cooling fan" method too :) – RunnyKine Mar 31 '14 at 01:38
  • @rasher for my machine, this is quite the norm. My fans occasionally go beserk (and then add some CUDA stuff to make the gfx card cooling scream along). Next time I´ll go for a business machine rather than a gaming laptop :D – Yves Klett Apr 02 '14 at 19:02
  • @GregH try getting a positive audio alert that will Ding on success and only use Beep on Failure. Here is a resource function for it.

    https://resources.wolframcloud.com/FunctionRepository/resources/Ding/

     – Jules Manson Sep 04 '22 at 16:16
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    @JulesManson Interesting. Thanks for resurrecting this 8-yr old, closed post! – GregH Sep 05 '22 at 23:08
  • @GregH sorry, my bad – Jules Manson Sep 10 '22 at 19:34
  • @JulesManson I think you misunderstood me - I truly was happy to see your comment! I think about it every once in a while. – GregH Sep 11 '22 at 20:55

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