What if you could REALLY customize your new Touch Bar?

TL;DR — You can customize the Touch Bar with custom actions, including per app buttons, button groups, icons and even emojis, and it’s awesome. Actual examples and config file below.

I consider myself an early adopter.

Early adopters, if you haven’t met any, are these weird people, who are willing to Beta test software, who are willing to overlook bugs and inconsistencies, are willing to try out a technology in its first iteration.

And this is what the Touch Bar currently is, a first iteration, of what I consider might be a great feature some day.

A lot of apple enthusiasts consider themselves early adopters, as long as they just pre-order a new iPhone, a new mac, or the air pods. But to be an early adopter also means you try to see the benefits of a new technology, it’s potential benefits, not just the ones Apple publishes in their marketing.

To that extent, I believe the new Touch Bar has a LOT of potential. Unfortunately, it takes a while to get there. So let’s try to imagine how it might be useful even now, shall we?

Current touch bar has integrations in most MacOS native apps. As I write this post in Notes, my Touch Bar looks like this: