Feature · 警告
Alert presets.Zen Mode. Regular Mode. Teach Me Senpai.
Zen Mode whispers at 15% (closes in 5 s) and once more at 5% (10 s), quiet enough to let you finish. Regular Mode adds a red overlay at 5% and a persistent alert at 2%. Teach Me Senpai keeps it simple but stern: a red overlay at 15% and a full-screen alert at 5%, both staying until you dismiss. Pick the mood that fits, or compose your own with Custom thresholds.
Why it matters
macOS gives you exactly one battery notification: at 10%. By then it's often too late for the slide you were about to ship. Three presets let the warning match the stakes.
The three presets in detail
Sensei ships with three escalation moods. Each is built around a real use case — pick the one whose stakes match yours.
- Zen Mode. Whispers at 15% (auto-dismisses in 5 seconds) and once more at 5% (10 seconds). Designed for the "finishing a sentence, will plug in shortly" case. No red, no urgency, no interruption.
- Regular Mode. The default. A standard card at 15%, a red overlay at 5%, and a persistent alert at 2%. The middle of the curve — visible enough to notice during heavy focus, gentle enough not to feel hostile.
- Teach Me Senpai. Stern. A red overlay at 15% (stays until dismissed) and a full-screen flasher at 5%. For people who routinely miss the milder cues, or for the slide-presenting day where running flat costs a deck.
Why three, not one
macOS gives you exactly one battery notification, at 10%. That timing is reasonable for an average user on an average day, and wrong for almost every specific situation. A presenter wants to know at 25% so they can plug in between slides. A long-haul flier needs the 5% alert to be unmissable. A focused writer wants the gentle nudge that doesn’t break flow.
Three presets cover the everyday shapes; if none of them quite fits, custom thresholds (Premium) lets you compose your own — per-tier percent and per-tier dismiss time.
Switching presets
One click in the menu bar, or under Settings → Alerts. Changes apply immediately. The current preset is the one Sensei uses for every day except trip days: when Travel Mode is active, Sensei swaps in stricter trip thresholds for the duration and restores your selected preset at the 9 AM auto-reset.
Frequently asked.
- Can I have different presets for plugged-in vs. on battery?
- Alert presets fire only when running on battery — plugged-in alerts don’t make sense (you’re not going to die). If you want a "currently using the adapter" indicator, that lives in the menu bar live readout, not the alerts system.
- Why does Senpai keep flashing until I click?
- Because the only way to guarantee you noticed is to refuse to be ignored. Senpai is the preset to pick when missing the warning costs more than the inconvenience of dismissing one.