If you’ve ever fallen into that trap, Control-tabbing to your task manager or time tracker throughout the day for no good reason, widgets can be a good way to break the habit. ![]() Sometimes having an app like a task manager or time tracker open all day on your Mac can be a distraction that reminds you of what you’re not doing, what you haven’t finished, and how much of your day you’ve squandered. ![]() However, many more terrific widgets have been released since and deserve consideration as well, so let’s dig in. A few of those widgets - which have been in development the longest and were highlighted in my Big Sur review - remain some of my favorites and are recapped below. ![]() Over the course of the summer and fall, I tried several different widgets as I ran the Big Sur betas. The result has been an immediate explosion of widget options for Mac users. Apple wisely took the same SwiftUI-based system used for creating widgets on the iPhone and iPad and implemented it on the Mac, providing a relatively simple approach for developers to bring their existing widgets to the Mac. However, that hasn’t been the case with Big Sur widgets. ![]() Developer adoption of new macOS features is often a little slower than it is on iOS and iPadOS.
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