How the macOS Dashboard can actually help you be productive
Apple keeps trying to kill Dashboard but you can still use the Mac’s widget-friendly one-stop-shop to all kinds of useful information – and perhaps the one thing it does that Notifications can’t truly match is monitor Websites for you.
What is Dashboard?
Introduced with OS X Tiger in 2005, Dashboard acts as a host for all manner of mini-apps (widgets). (Take a look at the image above -- an Apple PR image from 2005, it's amusing how many references to "Yosemite" you'll find. Along with a Dashboard icon in the Menu bar).
Your Mac ships with a range of widgets, including contacts, a puzzle game, flight tracker, calendar, clock, and weather app. You can enable new widgets by tapping the + icon at the lower left of the Dashboard environment.
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