Notifications

How they work

Every completed task run — success or failure — is tracked by Tide and fires a native macOS notification. Runs accumulate in the Notifications screen until you clear them.

Viewing notifications

Press N on the task list to open the Notifications screen. Each entry shows:

• Task name
• Run timestamp
• Exit code (0 = success, non-zero = failure)
• Output summary (first N characters of stdout/stderr)

Press c to clear all pending notifications.

Native macOS notifications

Each run fires a system notification with:

• Title: The task name and a ✓/✗ indicator
• Body: Completion status or exit code

These appear in Notification Center. You can configure them in System Settings → Notifications.

Clicking a notification

If terminal-notifier is installed (brew install terminal-notifier), clicking a notification dismisses it. Without it, Tide falls back to osascript.

Notification permissions

On first run, macOS may prompt you to allow notifications. If you installed terminal-notifier, allow notifications for it specifically — that's what sends them when it's available.

Design rationale

Completed tasks are never silently discarded:

1. You always know when a task ran, even if Tide wasn't open
2. Results persist until you actively clear them — no notification is lost on a restart
3. The Notifications screen is a lightweight review surface, not a log viewer (use the Logs screen for detailed output)