The difference is that you can specify whether to have an “Alert” or “Banner” notification.
Sorry - I guess I should make that more clear. I’ll go back and edit my original post.
Yeah, it would be nice if @peternlewis could add that option into the Notification Action.
So is the key difference that "Alert" popup stays on the screen until you dismiss it?
If that's the case, then could you just use the KM Alert Action?
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You could, except it takes focus away from your app. Both my and KM’s Show Notification use OS/X’s Notification Center. The difference is, the KM editor, and the KM engine, can only be set to one or the other - Banner or Alert. Mine lets you have both.
I really did a bad job of explaining the purpose of this plugin, didn’t I? I’m usually really good at these types of things. Don’t know where my head was.
I’ll re-work the entire post.
So, you want an Alert that stays on the screen until you dismiss it, but does NOT receive focus, and that the user can just ignore, if he/she so chooses, right?
Since you are into video, maybe a short video of how your plugin works would be useful.
Right.
That might be a good idea.
I was so involved in the technical details of getting it to work, I forgot that other people have no idea what I'm talking about! Thanks for pointing it out. Like I said, I'm usually really good at this kind of thing. Must be old age. 
Yes, it would be nice if I could, I quite agree. But you'll need to chat with Apple about that unfortunately.
OK, I’ve re-done the original post. Let me know what you think. Thanks.
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Dan, great job! That’s an outstanding writeup! 
Thanks. It’s more like what I usually do.
By the way, you got me laughing with your replies. You were leading me along so I would come up with a better explanation - what a great way to handle that! You have much more tact than I do. 
I was able to install the Keyboard Maestro plugins, but I couldn’t seem to get the dagware apps to be recognized in my notification preferences (even though I moved the apps to the recommended location and opened each one). Did I miss something?
P.S.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to you, too!
Did you run each of them once by double-clicking them? If you don’t do this, the system won’t recognize them.
I did, but something else was messing it up. Apparently my notification center was corrupted (figured that out when it wouldn’t open). Luckily, a Stack Overflow article outlined steps to fix it, and your apps now work perfectly anywho, thanks for the tips!
Glad you got it working!
Just curious - do you remember the Stack Overflow link? I have some issues with my notification center as well, so it might be useful for me. Thanks.
Sure, I went digging around a bit and I’m pretty positive that this is the link—http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/152064/how-do-i-re-enable-notification-center-in-yosemite-or-el-capitan-post-upgrade (just don’t forget the restarting your Mac afterwords bit)
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Hello thank you for creating the plugin. How do I design a macro so that I can pause it and perform an action by pressing “shows”? For example, open an app.
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@DanThomas Thank you for this great work and I really think it'll help me out in many cases, just like sometimes you just wanna a notification won't go away but you don't want a window pops out. But It seems that I've come across a installing issue here.
I followed your instruction step by step. But I can't see dagware in the notification preferences.
Here's what I've done for debugging (But nothing changes):
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I've checked @JohnA‘s suggestion link (How do I re-enable Notification Center in Yosemite or El Capitan post-upgrade? - Ask Different) , typed these codes into Terminal and restarted the Mac.
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I've check the notifications for other apps to test if it works properly and it's ok.
@DanThomas Have the same problem as Alice with the application earlier . Having downloaded this but the alert and notifier does appear on the list preferences-Notifications. Is there any way to solve this problem?
It's been way too long for me to remember anything about this. Perhaps someone else will chime in.
Thanks. Instruction video worked well. It's working now. Much easier then set a normal notification, pause and applescript for closing notifications
Awesome job, guys! 
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