Think about ways to use desktop notifications

[simonw]

Just spotted Electron has the ability to show native desktop notifications: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/notifications

I fired up the Electron Chrome debugger and ran this:

const { Notification } = require('electron');
new Notification({ title: "This is a notification", body: "The notification body goes here" }).show()

And this happened (with a little ping noise):

notify.mov

Think about ways this could be useful.

[simonw]

The obvious thing here is plugins that do any kind of long-winded process - from crunching a giant CSV file to enriching data through APIs. They could use notifications to let the user know that they are done.

Might even be something that can be done with scraping automation further down the line.