So a Redditor recently asked me an absolutely fair question about why CurrentKey Stats is a subscription app, and I would like to provide an explanation in full, because who doesn’t love free or really inexpensive software? (I do very much!) When I launched this app 5 years ago in early 2019, it had a… Continue reading A note about CurrentKey Stats’ return to the App Store after two years and offering an IAP subscription

My hope is that CurrentKey helps you use your Mac more productively and that you can have some fun along the way. Because I have added extensive AppleScript support, there are endless possibilities to spice up your Mac experience. What could I do with this power? Just brainstorming off the top of my head, here… Continue reading Brainstorming cool ways to use CurrentKey via its AppleScript support

Fortunately, there’s an easy way to accomplish this! We will use CurrentKey‘s Room Change Alerts to issue push notifications! Here’s what it will look like: How to set it up: Here is how to enable Room alerts: Here is what the script looks like: It’s just that easy! You can do so many things with… Continue reading Set up banner notifications that will tell you the name of the Space you just moved into!

Most of us know about the MacOS feature called Spaces, and many of us love splitting our projects, work, and hobbies across our virtual desktops. Some find it unweildy because each Space is generic out of the box. Spaces don’t come with the ability to be named or personalized other than setting a desktop background… Continue reading Assign specific scripts to run when you visit certain Mac Spaces 🖥 🎯

CurrentKey Stats has an icon that lives in the menubar, and a little-known trick can help you further customize where it exists. To move your menubar icons around, press the “command ⌘” key and then simply click and drag them around, to reposition them wherever you want. I learned this trick a few months into… Continue reading PSA: you can rearrange your Mac’s menubar icons by pressing Command (⌘) and then clicking and dragging them

Version 3.5: Adds the ability to switch the color palette of all graphs and charts within the app to one of six choices. Find the button on the left side of the toolbar in the large stats view. Debuts an option to auto-show the Room-selection dropdown when popover opens, for faster access to common actions.… Continue reading Introducing CurrentKey Stats 3.5, graph color palette switcher, more powerful alerts, and more! 🌈📊

We all know about the MacOS feature called Spaces, and many of us love splitting our projects, work, and hobbies across our virtual desktops. What if you could not just assign a name to each Space but also assign a custom Internet radio station to each one too? As you move between them, immersive sound… Continue reading How to give each of your Mac’s Spaces a custom sound 👂🏻

It finally felt like time to tackle a few ideas I’d been mulling for a long time for CurrentKey Stats. Here are links to a few resource pages on the new features: Automatically Generated Stats Reports And bi-directional AppleScript support, allowing for: Room Change Alerts (which you can set to trigger custom events), and Support… Continue reading CurrentKey Stats 3.0