Hello all,

I have an idea for an app that I think would be useful. Apologies if such a thing exists already (and great if it does!), but my numerous searches turned up nothing. If I had any QT programming skills, I'd take a tackle at it, but since I don't, I'm hoping someone here might get inspired.

I mute my phone at night. This is both because my number tends to attract a surprising amount of wrong numbers - some of which occur in middle of the night - and because email notifications are bothersome when one is trying to sleep. Obviously, however, this prevents me from receiving calls or messages from known people. Similarly, even when my phone is not muted, I may not always hear the tone or feel the vibe, especially when walking outside.

In both cases, it may take some time before I check my phone and realize I have a message. And in both cases, if an emergency is occurring and someone is trying to reach me, I'm out of luck.

So, I was thinking that it would be really useful if someone could invent a daemon or somesuch that monitors incoming SMS messages. If one such message contains a user-definable keyword - such as "Urgent" or "911", say, which would be shared with important contacts - then it would, regardless of profile settings, start making a loud and repeating tone, until such time as the message is checked.

Thoughts?