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Show HN: give names/icons to Mac Spaces, jump between and track time across them

I found myself using macOS Spaces more to keep my (growing number) of side projects separated and organized.

I built a Mac app that helps wrangle a ton of Spaces by letting you assign names (and custom menu bar icons) to them and giving you quick ways to jump directly between them (via hotkeys, a drop down, or via scripting (even from Terminal line)). www.currentkey.com The basic app is free, and there's an all-inclusive IAP to unlock all of its features. For a brief time, that IAP will be set at $2 (I think I'll normally price it around $10)

The app also includes wide-ranging AppleScript support. Here is a Gallery of ways to interact with the app from the command line, including via Claude Code, OpenClaw, etc: https://currentkey.com/automation via AppleScript. Some commands include:

- Flash a custom image in the menu bar as a visual notification, for ANY reason, via AppleScript.

- Pull usage data like total time, per-app time, per Space time, via AppleScript.

- Navigate to a specific, named MacOS Space via AppleScript.

You can also have the app call its custom AppleScript on Space-change and/or active app-change events.