I’ve been running boringNotch — an app that takes the black ‘notch’ in my MacBook and aims to make it useful — for a while now. I’ve tried others but realised why none of them enthuse me.
They are trying to solve a problem that shouldn’t exist. I’ve never had a ‘notch’ before, my brain doesn’t treat it like a thing I should care about, my muscle memory doesn’t push my cursor up to that area of the screen, so having an app that wants me to enter that area, and will open apps for me (I use Spotlight or the Dock for that), or will let me drop files there (I use Finder for that), feels like forcing usage rather than supporting it.
For the most part boringNotch, as I have it configured, is a nice way to display changes to system settings (volume mostly), and a nice what’s playing view when I’m in a playlist I didn’t build and want to know what I’m listening to.
I’ve still to find any other useful use cases for moving my cursor to that space. Maybe it’s just me, but it feels like too much of a stretch for these ‘notch’ apps to be anything other than useful information providers (at best).
What are your thoughts?