# The notch

The notch lives at the top centre of your main display. It is one borderless, always-on-top shape that never steals focus while it rests.

## At rest

- **Agents at work**: their logos, what the one in front is doing (*Reading package.json*) and for how long.
- **A question** an agent is waiting on, in amber, with *Deny* and *Review*.
- **A finished task**: the tool's logo with a badge and the task, plus a desktop notification.
- **Quotas** you switched on, each as the tool's logo in a ring. On a Mac they sit in the menu bar instead.

The island's width springs to what it says, so it breathes as its words change.

## Opening and folding

| To | Do |
| --- | --- |
| Open the office | Hover the island, click it, or press `Alt` + `N` |
| Fold it | Move the pointer away, click outside, or press `Esc` with nothing open in the office |

While a question waits, hovering doesn't open the office; use *Review*, which opens the question card in the notch.

The only ordinary window is the **dashboard**: the same office in a normal window, opened from the tray icon or its menu.

On a Mac the notch wraps the camera housing, and the shortcut is Option-N. See [Hover on macOS](https://tryhover.co/docs/macos.md).

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Part of the [Hover docs](https://tryhover.co/docs.md) (Using Hover). HTML version: https://tryhover.co/docs/notch. Index for agents: https://tryhover.co/llms.txt