I saw that people were building apps that hide in the notch on the MacBook Pro, so I though, “Why not make one for myself?”
So I built Notchly. Move the pointer up to the notch and it opens into a little dashboard: the time, my calendar, battery, a timer, the weather, whatever’s playing. Move away and it folds right back up.
Once the basics worked I kept adding widgets, because honestly it was fun. Reminders, world clocks, network speed, storage, Time Machine, even a sun widget that tells me when golden hour starts. You pick which ones show up, what order they go in, and whether they’re big tiles or small ones.
My favorite part is the little stuff. If a timer is running or a song is playing, it stays live in the closed notch, and when the timer’s done it rings right there. There’s even a light trackpad tap when it opens. It feels like it belongs on a Mac, which was the whole point.
My brother suggested to include custom backgrounds and I decided to add some animated backgrounds.
I had Claude check resources to make sure that it didn’t hog up too much RAM or CPU.
It’s a personal project for now, built in SwiftUI.