Now that Version 6 has successfully launched, with …
as well as…
So now it’s time to share upcoming high level goals for CurrentKey Stats, which will likely represent some of my Q1 improvements (slated to ship around early-Q2).
Widget time!
macOS Sonoma brought support for widgets on the desktop. A big part of CurrentKey’s promise is glanceable stats, so this is a natural fit for the app.
Siri support
Much of CurrentKey’s data and functionality is tucked deep into the app, so it would be nice to quickly jump to certain views in the app via Siri commands.
Month-over-month stats
Next year, wouldn’t it be neat to have a CurrentKey Wrapped feature that lets you look back at your app usage patterns over 12 months? To implement this, the app will need to hold on to lightweight stats summaries from each month.
Today’s version of CurrentKey Stats only retains two months’ worth of hour-by-hour stats (that can be downloaded as the “60-day hour-by-hour” report). This kind of data is too heavy. So I will be introducing (much) lighter-weight and longer-term data retention to enable easy month-over-month stats. This will also lay the groundwork for new month over month stats views in future releases.
It’s an honor to be able to improve Mac experiences for others. Thank you for being a part of this incredible journey. -Spencer
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Update: As of mid-December, I’m already well underway on these improvements, having shipped version 6.28 — which begins collecting long-term/lightweight stats collection, so that early adopters will have more data to look back at with “month over month stats views” mentioned above, when they ship later in 2025. I’ve also round-tripped widgets in my local dev environment, and am trying to come up with the most useful designs.