[Reason077]

I wish Apple would bring back the Dashboard for modern macOS versions, using the modern widget technology. I like the modern widgets but it's awkward that you can only use them on the desktop or notification centre. It's been gone for years now, but I still really miss Dashboard!

What I'd like is:

* Dashboard is a special desktop that appears to the left of the main desktop

* Can be accessed with a single F-key press, or by swiping with the trackpad/Magic Mouse

* Widgets can be organised/laid out any way you like, anywhere on the screen

[ForOldHack]

It was an absolutely brilliant idea, which they tossed... But .. nothing prevents someone from retro programming it or a better one.

Apple has left behind some of the most brilliant UX/UI ideas of the century...

[trinix912]

There was also an overlay option to see Dash atop of other apps, which I liked more than the extra desktop. You could pop up a unit converter without “leaving” the current program/desktop.

[dewey]

I'm not sure what it was called but the "web clipping" Widget was always my favorite. It worked really well to just have a always updated time table from your school in the dashboard just by basically taking a screenshot of it once.

[Reason077]

Yes, I found that very useful too! Although it was always pretty fragile. Minor changes on the underlying clipped website would often break the widget and you'd have to go back and clip it again. And occasionally WebKit would crash or act weird because of the clipped website and the whole Dashboard would freeze or crash.

My understanding is that the technical foundations of Webkit-based Dashboard were always a bit flaky and this is what did it in. But now that we have modern, native widgets, it's a shame that the excellent Dashboard UX hasn't been brought back. They threw the baby out with the bathwater!