You can go to the Terminal and use simple one-line shell scripts to get various pieces of information such as the date and time, your Internet IP address and your Wi-Fi network name. Using Automator, you can incorporate these bits of information into a simple notification that appears whenever you press a keyboard shortcut.
Check out Creating An Information Notification With Shell Scripts And Automator at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
Here is the line of code for the date and time:
date '+%A, %B %d, %Y %I:%M:%S %p'
Here is the line of code for the IP address:
curl -s http://ipecho.net/plain
Here is the line of code for the Wi-Fi network name:
networksetup -getairportnetwork en2 | awk -F": " '{print $2}'
Great video. Good job. Now I gotta go think of other things to get notified on with this approach
i.e: uptime="10:28 up 3 days ", pmset -g accps, and pmset -g ac. Endless... :-)
Thanks.