Photoshop interval function in scripting

The original post from @SuperMerlin (thank you) can be found here:

Reminder to save?

Using this script, I was able to create a sort of "Rube Goldberg Machine" or "Heath Robinson Contraption" to auto-save files, with or without a notification. Others may be able to create a more elegant solution:

automate save as or export with sequential file names

Some other links that may be useful can be found below, some links are to old forum posts that are now broken, but you can copy the name of the topic thread from and paste it into the forum search to overcome the link being broken:

Need help making a script for saving as jpg with interval

Automatic Save Function? (NOT for autorecovery)

EDIT: Just in case the link to SuperMerlin's script is broken in future forum software changes:

/* 
Reminder to save?
https://forums.adobe.com/message/11013186#11013186
https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop/reminder-to-save/m-p/10466042?page=1
*/

#target bridge;  

if( BridgeTalk.appName == "bridge" ) {    
var psRem= new MenuElement( "command", "PS Reminder", "at the end of Tools");  
}  
psRem.onSelect = function () {   
var mins =  60000 * 3; // Three minutes  
psReminder = function(){  
    var bt = new BridgeTalk();  
    bt.target = "photoshop";  
    bt.body = "if(documents.length) alert('Save Reminder!');";   
    bt.send(4)  
    }  
id = app.scheduleTask( "psReminder()", mins, true );   
var win = new Window("palette","Photoshop Reminder");  
win.bu1 = win.add("button",undefined,"Stop Reminder");  
win.bu1.onClick = function(){  
    win.close(0);  
    app.cancelTask (id);  
    }  
win.show();  
};