With Android Wear, Google has just announced an operating system which builds completely on Android notifications. It seems to work and even more so look great, proving just once more how much power lies in Androids notification system. However, it is also yet another party that has been added to the already now complicated construction of notifications.

Android Wear devices might not produce any new notifications from their own, but they’re yet another component that gets involved into the whole process, for example when deciding which kind of notifications you want to get shown. Thinking also about Google Glass and other new device categories that might come up in near future, I would suggest Google to make the whole thing with notifications a lot easier by introducing a cloud-based notification system.

Google should completely replace Android’s current local notifications with a new service, collecting notifications from all of your devices. Since it’s now also available on PCs, it seems easiest to use Google Now for this cross-platform system.

The Google Search app should continue to show nothing but Google Now cards, but Android’s notification center should be transformed into a stream, listing Google Now cards and notifications from your devices and from cross-platform applications like Google+.

If an app on your mobile phone has been updated, you should also be notified on your PC, your tablet, and all other devices you’re connected to. And if you close the notification, it should also be closed everywhere else.