It seems like everyone is tackling more projects these days. The AI coding boom is here, and every idea is fair game.
For each project, you’ve got 5-10 Claude Code terminal tabs open (even Claude Code’s creator Boris says he keeps tons of Terminal tabs open), and dozens of browser tabs, Xcode/Android Studio/etc windows, text editor windows, and more. This messy workflow is an inherent part of working with agentic AI tools. You find yourself leaning more on Mac’s Spaces, but next thing you know: you have 15+ Spaces.
Tools to keep projects organized across these desktops are becoming more important. This is because efficient context switching between projects is a more valuable skill than ever before.
That’s why CurrentKey has been gaining steam. It lets you instantly recognize what Space you’re in and jump between Spaces (regardless of how many you have, or across how many screens) via hotkeys and a dropdown of a list of named “Rooms” (and via AppleScript commands). More people must be searching for ways to wrangle their desktops/Spaces.
I have recognized this and have shifted the branding/focus of the app to the Rooms-related features, now calling the app CurrentKey instead of CurrentKey Stats in the App Store.
CurrentKey 9.0 launched a suite of features focused on improving Room (Spaces) customization. Now you can have a Room-specific Banner appear, in any corner of your Mac, when you swipe into a Room. This banner can be animated, like a movie, and even play sound. Read about CurrentKey 9.0 here!
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Moving forward, I want to keep focusing on Rooms features:
For one, I want to improve the app’s “Room Stats” offerings, so that it can catch up a bit to what App Stats offers.
Next, I want to more effectively expose the Rooms data to MCP servers or Claude Skills, as well as integrate Rooms into Shortcuts. (This will be opt in, like AppleScript currently is.)
I also want to improve Banners, adding new transitions beyond fade-in, like slide in, and add the option for Banners to show up in the middle of the screen, not the corner, etc..
I’m also interested in adding new AppleScript commands, and making a Shortcuts Gallery. If you have any ideas for what I could add, shoot me an email!
CurrentKey is still the only app in the world that can assign names to Spaces (without using private macOS APIs or requiring the user to disable System Integrity Protection).
Cheers! – Spencer