diff --git a/nixos/configuration.nix b/nixos/configuration.nix
index 86ada91..9a489e9 100644
--- a/nixos/configuration.nix
+++ b/nixos/configuration.nix
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@
     gcc
     astal.hyprland
     btop
+    libnotify
   ];
   
   environment.sessionVariables = {
diff --git a/packages/ags/custom/app.ts b/packages/ags/custom/app.ts
index 4b7ea48..ac17f43 100644
--- a/packages/ags/custom/app.ts
+++ b/packages/ags/custom/app.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { App } from "astal/gtk3"
 import style from "./style.scss"
 import Bar from "./widget/Bar"
+// import NotificationPopups from "./notification/NotificationPopups"
 
 App.start({
     css: style,
diff --git a/packages/ags/custom/notification/Notification.scss b/packages/ags/custom/notification/Notification.scss
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a32f08b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/ags/custom/notification/Notification.scss
@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+@use "sass:string";
+
+@function gtkalpha($c, $a) {
+    @return string.unquote("alpha(#{$c},#{$a})");
+}
+
+// https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/blob/gtk-3-24/gtk/theme/Adwaita/_colors-public.scss
+$fg-color: #{"@theme_fg_color"};
+$bg-color: #{"@theme_bg_color"};
+$error: red;
+
+window.NotificationPopups {
+    all: unset;
+}
+
+eventbox.Notification {
+
+    &:first-child>box {
+        margin-top: 1rem;
+    }
+
+    &:last-child>box {
+        margin-bottom: 1rem;
+    }
+
+    // eventboxes can not take margins so we style its inner box instead
+    >box {
+        min-width: 400px;
+        border-radius: 13px;
+        background-color: $bg-color;
+        margin: .5rem 1rem .5rem 1rem;
+        box-shadow: 2px 3px 8px 0 gtkalpha(black, .4);
+        border: 1pt solid gtkalpha($fg-color, .03);
+    }
+
+    &.critical>box {
+        border: 1pt solid gtkalpha($error, .4);
+
+        .header {
+
+            .app-name {
+                color: gtkalpha($error, .8);
+
+            }
+
+            .app-icon {
+                color: gtkalpha($error, .6);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    .header {
+        padding: .5rem;
+        color: gtkalpha($fg-color, 0.5);
+
+        .app-icon {
+            margin: 0 .4rem;
+        }
+
+        .app-name {
+            margin-right: .3rem;
+            font-weight: bold;
+
+            &:first-child {
+                margin-left: .4rem;
+            }
+        }
+
+        .time {
+            margin: 0 .4rem;
+        }
+
+        button {
+            padding: .2rem;
+            min-width: 0;
+            min-height: 0;
+        }
+    }
+
+    separator {
+        margin: 0 .4rem;
+        background-color: gtkalpha($fg-color, .1);
+    }
+
+    .content {
+        margin: 1rem;
+        margin-top: .5rem;
+
+        .summary {
+            font-size: 1.2em;
+            color: $fg-color;
+        }
+
+        .body {
+            color: gtkalpha($fg-color, 0.8);
+        }
+
+        .image {
+            border: 1px solid gtkalpha($fg-color, .02);
+            margin-right: .5rem;
+            border-radius: 9px;
+            min-width: 100px;
+            min-height: 100px;
+            background-size: cover;
+            background-position: center;
+        }
+    }
+
+    .actions {
+        margin: 1rem;
+        margin-top: 0;
+
+        button {
+            margin: 0 .3rem;
+
+            &:first-child {
+                margin-left: 0;
+            }
+
+            &:last-child {
+                margin-right: 0;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/packages/ags/custom/notification/Notification.tsx b/packages/ags/custom/notification/Notification.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5149d5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/ags/custom/notification/Notification.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+import { GLib } from "astal"
+import { Gtk, Astal } from "astal/gtk3"
+import { type EventBox } from "astal/gtk3/widget"
+import Notifd from "gi://AstalNotifd"
+
+const isIcon = (icon: string) =>
+    !!Astal.Icon.lookup_icon(icon)
+
+const fileExists = (path: string) =>
+    GLib.file_test(path, GLib.FileTest.EXISTS)
+
+const time = (time: number, format = "%H:%M") => GLib.DateTime
+    .new_from_unix_local(time)
+    .format(format)!
+
+const urgency = (n: Notifd.Notification) => {
+    const { LOW, NORMAL, CRITICAL } = Notifd.Urgency
+    // match operator when?
+    switch (n.urgency) {
+        case LOW: return "low"
+        case CRITICAL: return "critical"
+        case NORMAL:
+        default: return "normal"
+    }
+}
+
+type Props = {
+    setup(self: EventBox): void
+    onHoverLost(self: EventBox): void
+    notification: Notifd.Notification
+}
+
+export default function Notification(props: Props) {
+    const { notification: n, onHoverLost, setup } = props
+    const { START, CENTER, END } = Gtk.Align
+
+    return <eventbox
+        className={`Notification ${urgency(n)}`}
+        setup={setup}
+        onHoverLost={onHoverLost}>
+        <box vertical>
+            <box className="header">
+                {(n.appIcon || n.desktopEntry) && <icon
+                    className="app-icon"
+                    visible={Boolean(n.appIcon || n.desktopEntry)}
+                    icon={n.appIcon || n.desktopEntry}
+                />}
+                <label
+                    className="app-name"
+                    halign={START}
+                    truncate
+                    label={n.appName || "Unknown"}
+                />
+                <label
+                    className="time"
+                    hexpand
+                    halign={END}
+                    label={time(n.time)}
+                />
+                <button onClicked={() => n.dismiss()}>
+                    <icon icon="window-close-symbolic" />
+                </button>
+            </box>
+            <Gtk.Separator visible />
+            <box className="content">
+                {n.image && fileExists(n.image) && <box
+                    valign={START}
+                    className="image"
+                    css={`background-image: url('${n.image}')`}
+                />}
+                {n.image && isIcon(n.image) && <box
+                    expand={false}
+                    valign={START}
+                    className="icon-image">
+                    <icon icon={n.image} expand halign={CENTER} valign={CENTER} />
+                </box>}
+                <box vertical>
+                    <label
+                        className="summary"
+                        halign={START}
+                        xalign={0}
+                        label={n.summary}
+                        truncate
+                    />
+                    {n.body && <label
+                        className="body"
+                        wrap
+                        useMarkup
+                        halign={START}
+                        xalign={0}
+                        justifyFill
+                        label={n.body}
+                    />}
+                </box>
+            </box>
+            {n.get_actions().length > 0 && <box className="actions">
+                {n.get_actions().map(({ label, id }) => (
+                    <button
+                        hexpand
+                        onClicked={() => n.invoke(id)}>
+                        <label label={label} halign={CENTER} hexpand />
+                    </button>
+                ))}
+            </box>}
+        </box>
+    </eventbox>
+}
diff --git a/packages/ags/custom/notification/NotificationPopups.tsx b/packages/ags/custom/notification/NotificationPopups.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..13fdd88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/ags/custom/notification/NotificationPopups.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+import { Astal, Gtk, Gdk } from "astal/gtk3"
+import Notifd from "gi://AstalNotifd"
+import Notification from "./Notification"
+import { type Subscribable } from "astal/binding"
+import { Variable, bind, timeout } from "astal"
+
+// see comment below in constructor
+const TIMEOUT_DELAY = 5000
+
+// The purpose if this class is to replace Variable<Array<Widget>>
+// with a Map<number, Widget> type in order to track notification widgets
+// by their id, while making it conviniently bindable as an array
+class NotifiationMap implements Subscribable {
+    // the underlying map to keep track of id widget pairs
+    private map: Map<number, Gtk.Widget> = new Map()
+
+    // it makes sense to use a Variable under the hood and use its
+    // reactivity implementation instead of keeping track of subscribers ourselves
+    private var: Variable<Array<Gtk.Widget>> = Variable([])
+
+    // notify subscribers to rerender when state changes
+    private notifiy() {
+        this.var.set([...this.map.values()].reverse())
+    }
+
+    constructor() {
+        const notifd = Notifd.get_default()
+
+        /**
+         * uncomment this if you want to
+         * ignore timeout by senders and enforce our own timeout
+         * note that if the notification has any actions
+         * they might not work, since the sender already treats them as resolved
+         */
+        // notifd.ignoreTimeout = true
+
+        notifd.connect("notified", (_, id) => {
+            this.set(id, Notification({
+                notification: notifd.get_notification(id)!,
+
+                // once hovering over the notification is done
+                // destroy the widget without calling notification.dismiss()
+                // so that it acts as a "popup" and we can still display it
+                // in a notification center like widget
+                // but clicking on the close button will close it
+                onHoverLost: () => this.delete(id),
+
+                // notifd by default does not close notifications
+                // until user input or the timeout specified by sender
+                // which we set to ignore above
+                setup: () => timeout(TIMEOUT_DELAY, () => {
+                    /**
+                     * uncomment this if you want to "hide" the notifications
+                     * after TIMEOUT_DELAY
+                     */
+                    // this.delete(id)
+                })
+            }))
+        })
+
+        // notifications can be closed by the outside before
+        // any user input, which have to be handled too
+        notifd.connect("resolved", (_, id) => {
+            this.delete(id)
+        })
+    }
+
+    private set(key: number, value: Gtk.Widget) {
+        // in case of replacecment destroy previous widget
+        this.map.get(key)?.destroy()
+        this.map.set(key, value)
+        this.notifiy()
+    }
+
+    private delete(key: number) {
+        this.map.get(key)?.destroy()
+        this.map.delete(key)
+        this.notifiy()
+    }
+
+    // needed by the Subscribable interface
+    get() {
+        return this.var.get()
+    }
+
+    // needed by the Subscribable interface
+    subscribe(callback: (list: Array<Gtk.Widget>) => void) {
+        return this.var.subscribe(callback)
+    }
+}
+
+export default function NotificationPopups(gdkmonitor: Gdk.Monitor) {
+    const { TOP, RIGHT } = Astal.WindowAnchor
+    const notifs = new NotifiationMap()
+
+    return <window
+        className="NotificationPopups"
+        gdkmonitor={gdkmonitor}
+        exclusivity={Astal.Exclusivity.EXCLUSIVE}
+        anchor={TOP | RIGHT}>
+        <box vertical noImplicitDestroy>
+            {bind(notifs)}
+        </box>
+    </window>
+}
diff --git a/packages/ags/custom/style.scss b/packages/ags/custom/style.scss
index f5f771a..5c20382 100644
--- a/packages/ags/custom/style.scss
+++ b/packages/ags/custom/style.scss
@@ -104,3 +104,4 @@ window.Bar {
         }
     }
 }
+
diff --git a/packages/ags/custom/widget/Bar.tsx b/packages/ags/custom/widget/Bar.tsx
index 8310495..59e68f9 100644
--- a/packages/ags/custom/widget/Bar.tsx
+++ b/packages/ags/custom/widget/Bar.tsx
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ function FocusedClient() {
     </box>
 }
 
-function Time({ format = "%H:%M - %A %e." }) {
+function Time({ format = "%H:%M - %A %e" }) {
     const time = Variable<string>("").poll(1000, () =>
         GLib.DateTime.new_now_local().format(format)!)
 
diff --git a/packages/ags/default.nix b/packages/ags/default.nix
index 06336ff..180dc6a 100644
--- a/packages/ags/default.nix
+++ b/packages/ags/default.nix
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
       inputs.ags.packages.${pkgs.system}.io
       inputs.ags.packages.${pkgs.system}.network
       inputs.ags.packages.${pkgs.system}.tray
+      inputs.ags.packages.${pkgs.system}.notifd
       fzf
     ];
   };