In CurrentKey Stats 7.0, you can now directly jump to a specific day’s stats summary via a new calendar view.
(If you don’t immediately see the calendar button, that’s OK! It’s working as designed: if you are a new user, the calendar button will appear after about a week. If you have been a user for a while, it will show up after a few days if not sooner.)
Found in the popover, the view also also acts as a heat map of activity that happened while CurrentKey was running. The way the heat map works: each day in the calendar displays 0 through 4 dots. [4 dots meant you had 8+ hours of activity that day, 3 dots means 5+ hours, 2 dots means 2+ hours, 1 dot means 10+ minutes, and 0 dots means <10 minutes.]
The other cool thing about CKS 7.0 is the big improvement made under the hood. Now, the app will hold on to days’ stats summaries (top 6 apps for a given day and total time in apps). Before 7.0, the app only retained up to ~2 months worth of stats data. But now with 7.0, the app will start retaining this new lightweight summary data for much longer. This means that the heat map mentioned above will eventually have months of data you can go back and reference. I will also be able to build some big picture “look back at your year of stats”-type features; they’re a ways off, but I’m really excited about that.
Finally, a cool thing you will notice is that a day’s summary view now can contextualize the data, by telling you what timezone was used when summarizing the data, whether the “day starts at 4am” setting was enabled, and what the “minutes before the app considers it inactive” setting was. In other words, stats summaries are more useful with context, so now you have it!
