Checking the time on my Mac

Inspired by a recent post about keeping the menubar a bit more compact, I switched the menubar clock to the analog version.

How to Change the macOS Menu Bar Clock from Digital to Analog

Since clicking on the clock also toggles Notification Center, adding the Clock widget (with a monthly calendar) made sense, which is way more readable than the small one in the menubar.

I can even toggle Notification Center with the Globe-N keyboard shortcut for quick clock access.

On the other hand, I remembered a Mac app, called FuzzyClock . It’s an old app that shows you the time, kinda… Instead of displaying 8:23, it just says twenty past eight. Sadly, FuzzyClock doesn’t work on newer systems anymore, but I found FuzzyTime which is a modern, reimagined version of FuzzyClock.

What’s the point of these apps? Sometimes, maybe we’re too attached to being precise with our time, and not knowing exactly what the current time is can ease that, making us more focused.

Since I hid the digital clock because I wanted more space in my menubar, it’s not ideal if I see FuzzyTime running all the time. It takes up more space than the digital clock, but it would be nice to toggle it using a keyboard shortcut.

I used Keyboard Maestro to automate the display of FuzzyTime .

Pressing ⌃⌥⌘H will open FuzzyTime, and pressing the same shortcut again will just quit it, resulting an on/off toggle effect for FuzzyTime in the menubar, which is exactly what I want.

In essence, here’s how I check the time on my Mac now .

Oh, I and still have plenty of space for my app icons in the menubar.