OS X Yosemite and the use of widgets

With the arrival of OS X Yosemite We are presented with many novelties, one of them being the incorporation of third-party widgets to the renewed notification center, which goes from being a simple "aggregator" of notifications to include a different mechanism for how to store these notifications. This new way of adding notifications is directly inspired by iOS 8 since basically, the operation is basically the same.

Now we must bear in mind that this new Notification Center becomes a simple drawer to store everything until we discard it when we open it, to an interface with a translucent aspect that reveals the icons, the part of the desktop, open applications ... below it in a lower layer, this creates a sense of depth in line with the whole new line aesthetic that Apple is following.

The way to activate the notification center is exactly the same as before, that is, with two fingers we can do the gesture from right to left on the edge of the trackpad so that it appears on the screen. You can also use the same functionality of the notification center when a pop-up window with an alert appears in the upper right side by simply clicking on it to open the application associated with it.

As we saw in the iOS version, Yosemite adds widgets for the date, calendar, social networks, stock market, reminders, time, events. If we look at the bottom of the notification center itself, we see an "Edit" button to add and remove widgets, also including those developed by third parties. In addition, it is also possible to reorganize all that we want the arrangement that best suits us, that is, to be able to leave the social networks widget in the first position, eliminate the stock one and add any other from third parties.

Once we have everything ready with the Edit button activated we can adjust the requirements of each particular widget by pressing the «i» button right next to it, where we can also add more places in the time widget or add time zones in the clock widget.

All these functions mean that every day that passes, with developers focused on creating widgets for their applications, they end up leaving the Totally obsolete OS X Dashboard.