This will take you to the App Store where you can choose widgets to install onto your Mac.Īfter installing your chosen widget you may need to click the open button in the App store for it to show up in the Notification center.Īs you can see it’s fairly straight forward to manage the Notifications widgets and handy if like me you are a Wunderlist user! If the user sets the dock as auto-hidden, then the widget bar should be the same. This is not new to Yosemite, but in Mavericks you only had the option to show the Dashboard as a space or not. While there are few people who have found any good use for the Dashboard, it is still there, and there is a somewhat modest repository of Widgets for you to download to make.
Dashboard should have simply adopted the users settings for dock behavior for the widget bar. Mac OS X offers a dashboard to store third-party widgets. When OS X Lion came out, the revamped Dashboard was among the many new features, but in all fairness, it failed to impress and many might have disabled it altogether. They already had a perfectly good method for dealing with stacks of icons - they call it the dock. To add more widgets click on the App Store button after clicking the edit button. The plus button is a silly addition to the OS X UI. This will take you to the App Store where you can choose widgets to install.
You can also change the order of the widgets by dragging the title up and down until you have the widget in the order you want it. To make your choice and enable Dashboard, simply select the desired option from the System Preferences drop-down menu. To add more widgets click on the App Store button after clicking the edit button. Then use the button to add widgets or remove them. To edit the widgets click on the edit button on the today tab. To see your notifications click on the 3 bars in the top right hand corner of macOS: Alternatively, you can right-click on any widget and choose the Edit Widgets button to get to the widget editing screen. The Notification center can also provide you access to information quickly like your calendar and weather information using widgets, some of the widgets such as the weather widget are built in others are added by apps. To add more widgets, open the Notification Center and scroll down to the bottom of the list. Notification in macOS keep all the potential dialog boxes and pop ups that apps generate under control and in one place.