NotchDodo
NotchDodo turns your notch into a full-blown dashboard.
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NotchDodo turns your notch into a full-blown dashboard.
167 followers
NotchDodo turns your Mac’s notch into a useful part of your everyday workflow. 🦤 With 14 built-in tools, NotchDodo gives you quick access to handy utilities without interrupting your work. It’s lightweight, simple, and designed specifically for Macs with a notch. Instead of working around the notch, make it useful. 14 tools. One notch. A more useful Mac.
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@almas_malik Can users customize the tools and shortcuts based on their own workflow and preferences?
@chandani_kumari5 Great question! Yes, quite a bit:
Turn any of the 14 tools on or off, so the panel only shows what you use
Pick which quick toggles appear (12 to choose from, like dark mode, keep awake, lock screen, hide desktop icons)
Set your own Pomodoro, break and timer lengths
Set your workday hours for the Day Progress bar
Adjust the hover delay, show or hide the tool dock, and switch to a glass look
Choose whether downloads land on the Shelf, and set your own Claude Code token budget
Hide it in full-screen apps, and keep it closed during video calls
The Launcher follows your Dock, so it always matches the apps you already use.
Custom keyboard shortcuts and rearranging the Dashboard aren't in yet. Both are on my list. Which would help your workflow more?
@almas_malik what made you to decide to build this specifically for the notch ?
@dipanshu_kushwaha5 Honestly, it started with annoyance 😄 My iPhone's Dynamic Island shows me what matters at a glance, and my MacBook had a black notch doing nothing, right at the top of the screen where I look all day.
Then I kept hitting my Claude Code limit mid-task with no warning. I wanted that number always visible but never in the way. The notch was the obvious spot: always there, never covering my work, one hover away.
Once the usage meter lived there, the timer, calendar and music followed.
@polymorphclub all local! 🙂 claude code already writes every session to JSONL logs in ~/.claude/projects. NotchDodo reads those and groups your usage into 5-hour windows the same way the open source ccusage tool does, starting at your first message.
It's a close estimate rather than Anthropic's official counter, since they don't publish that. The budget is learned from your biggest past window, or you can set your own. Nothing ever leaves your Mac.
@almas_malik the notch feels like an overlooked part of the Mac experiances and so this is a fun approach.
how did you decides which are tools made it into the first versions???
@amrita_prajapati2 Thank you! 🙌 My rule was simple: if I kept switching apps just to glance at something, it belonged in the notch. So v1 was what I checked all day: my next meeting, a Pomodoro, music, a place to drop files, and my Claude Code usage, which is what started it.
Since launch, users have been deciding. Screenshots on the Shelf, Claude Code alerts, the meeting heads-up and the menu bar icon finder all came from requests.
Check here - https://notchdodo.com/changelog
What would you add?
Wow! Love it!
Can I customize and add my own widgets?
@flowmonkeyio Thank you so much! 🙌 You can already make the Dashboard your own. Pick any 8 of 14 tiles (Music, AI Usage, Screen Time, Dev Servers and more) and drag them into the order you like from the gear on the Dashboard. Fully custom widgets aren't there yet, but I'd love to hear what you'd add. What would your first widget be?
The product is really cool, and moreover the landing page (notchdodo.com) is really cool - looks like it's straight from Apple.
@faizan_khan84 Thank you, that genuinely made my day! 🙌 I spent a lot of time on the site because I wanted it to feel like it belonged on a Mac, the same way the notch should. Glad it shows.
If there's one thing you'd want the notch to do next, tell me. A lot of what shipped this week started as a comment like yours.
I'm on a MacBook plugged into an external monitor most of the day, screen closed, so no physical notch in view. does NotchDodo just not run in that setup, or does it put the dashboard somewhere else when there's no notch to anchor to? that's basically my whole workday so it'd decide whether this is useful for me at all.
@galdayan Great question, and yes, it works in that setup! When there's no notch, like with the lid closed on an external monitor, NotchDodo draws a small black island at the top centre of your monitor. The whole dashboard opens from there, with every tool, the live activities and the shortcuts working the same. Nothing to set up, it just happens.
One thing to know: if you open the lid while the monitor is plugged in, it moves back to the MacBook's real notch.
Turning the notch from wasted space into an always visible glanceable dashboard is such a clever reframe, basically the Dynamic Island idea done right for the Mac.
@ilko_kacharov Thank you! :)
Congrats, Almas! Turning the notch into an actual dashboard is such a clever use of dead space on Mac. The Wrapped feature made me smile — nice touch of personality on top of real utility.
@karimbenkeroum Thank you so much! 😊 Wrapped was the fun one to build. I kept wondering how far my cursor actually travels in a month, and it turns out it's usually a half marathon. The first Monday recap goes out next week, so I'd love to hear what yours says.