Notifications on the Mac show up in the top-right corner as a rule. This is fine most of the time, but on large displays you might not notice what’s happening in the top-right corner if you’re reading a document on the left side of the screen. Wouldn’t the notifications be better in the middle, the way they show up on the iPhone and iPad?
PingPlace is a free Mac application that will move your notifications to other corners or even the top center of your screen. The application lives in the menu bar and lets you choose between the four corners of the display along with the top and bottom middle.
Setting the application up is easy: Just download it, drag it to your Applications folder, then launch. You will be asked to enable accessibility permissions for the application, which is common for this sort of customization app. After that, you can choose where you want your notifications to show up by clicking the menu bar icon.
Credit: Justin Pot
This worked for me, though not without a few oddities. When I set notifications to the center, for example, the widget area also moved to the center. Some people might actually prefer this, granted, but I like having my widgets area on the right side of the screen.
The application, by default, does not start when your Mac does—you can change this by checking the “Launch at Login” button in the settings. And that’s about it in terms of options.
This isn’t the only application that makes working with notifications easier—there’s also an app that dismisses notifications using a keyboard shortcut. Hopefully a future version of macOS will make apps like this unnecessary.
