Opening and closing

The notch has three sizes. Closed, it blends into the camera housing and shows live activities beside it. A glance shows what’s live, and the open notch has everything.

The open notch on the Nook tab, showing the music player beside the next calendar event.

Opening it

Do this	And
Rest the pointer on the notch	A glance grows out of it
Click the notch, or the glance	The whole notch opens
Swipe down on the trackpad over the notch	The whole notch opens
Press `Control Option N⌃⌥N`	The notch opens, or closes if it’s open
Press `Control Option K⌃⌥K`	The notch opens on the command field
Drag files toward the notch	It opens on the Tray’s drop zones
Choose Open Notch or Open Tray in the menu bar menu	The notch opens
Run `dynotch open`, or open a `dynotch://` link	The notch opens on the tab you name

Closing it

Move the pointer away. If you opened it without the pointer, with a shortcut, the menu bar or a link, it waits until the pointer has been over it once.
Click anywhere outside it.
Swipe up. Over a list with more than it shows, the swipe scrolls the list, so on the Focus tab only the header closes it. Over the Nook’s stack, the swipe turns the stack.
Press Control Option N⌃⌥N again.
Press EscEsc, whichever app you’re in. While the notch is open the key is the notch’s, so the app doesn’t get it. A menu, a drag or AirPlay’s device list still gets it first.

Moving between tabs

The open notch has four tabs: Nook, Tray, Focus and Control. Click one, or swipe two fingers sideways over the open notch. Over the Tray’s strip of files, once it runs over, the swipe scrolls the strip instead. The Nook is always there, and you can hide the others in Settings›Nook & Widgets›Tabs.

Over the header, the same sideways swipe skips tracks instead, as it does over the closed notch. See Audio and keys.

Changing how it opens

All of this is in Settings›General›Opening the notch.

Setting	What it does	Starts as
Hover	A glance, or the whole notch, when the pointer rests on it	On
Swipe	Swipe down to open, up to close, sideways to skip a track or change tabs	On
Keyboard shortcut	Toggles the notch with `Control Option N⌃⌥N`	On
Haptic feedback	A tap from the trackpad when the notch responds	On
Hover shows	A glance, or The full notch as Dynotch did before it had glances	A glance
Hover delay	How long the pointer rests before anything happens, from 0 to 1 second	0.15 s

The General page of Dynotch's Settings, with tiles for Hover, Swipe, Keyboard shortcut and Haptic feedback, and the Hover shows and Hover delay controls.