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Work with widgets in Notification Center - macOS Tutorial

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Work with widgets in Notification Center

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- [Instructor] In this video, we'll talk about widgets in the notification center. Now when I get an incoming message, I will see a notification. And in a moment that notification will disappear depending on what type of notification it is. But if you open the notification center by clicking the clock up in the top-right corner, any notification that you have not addressed will still be visible in the notification center. But there are other things here in the notification center. These other items are called widgets. These show little bits of useful information that can help you at a glance without launching an application. So I can see my next few appointments for the day. I can see the weather. I can see stock report and so on. And you can change which widgets are visible. Just scroll all the way down to the bottom, and click edit widgets. So maybe I don't use the stock widget. So I could click the minus button on that, and it goes away. And then over here, I can scroll through the list of available widgets. So I want to scroll down, and find this daily activity widget. This is part of the screen time application, which gives me data that tells me how much time I'm spending on my computer. Now many of these widgets have different sizes. So down at the bottom, I could set it to small, medium or large. Let's set this to medium, and then I can add it to the notification center just by dragging it over. I actually want this one right below weather. So I'll drag it there and let go. And also some of these widgets have options that you can set. While you're in this editing view, if you point at a widget and it says edit widget below it, you can click on it, and you'll have some options or some settings. So in this case for the weather, I don't want the weather at Cupertino. So I'll click on this line here, and I'm just going to do a search for the location I want. Let's get the weather for San Francisco, hit the return key, find it here on this list, click done. And now it changes to San Francisco weather. Of course different widgets will have different options, and you can have multiple widgets of the same type. So back over here on this list, I'll scroll until I see the weather forecast widget, and I'm just going to stick with the small size, but I'm going to drag another one to the list. And then I'm going to click on that one. And we're going to set that to a different location. I'll set this one to New York. I find it here on the list. Then I'll click done. And now I have a second weather widget. You can also change the size of widgets after you've added them. So you can right-click on one, and let's set this to medium, and that looks a little bit better. And when you're finished editing your widget list, be sure to scroll all the way down to the bottom and click done. And now I can scroll through my widgets, and all of my notifications here on this list in the notification center. Now you probably know that you could click on a notification, and that will open the related application, but that's also true with widgets. Or in the case of the weather widget, if I click on that, it opens up the weather.com website, and I can see more details about the weather there. So with a combination of notifications, and widgets, your notification center is a useful tool for giving you quick at a glance information that will help you during your workday.

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