CurrentKey, Removing Mac Friction Points with Space Naming and ScreenTime Info You Can Actually Use

Here are two Mac friction points: It's been 16 years since Mission Control was released, and "Desktop 3" is still "Desktop 3." Apple's API doesn't expose Space naming to any third-party app — there's no system-level hook to hang a label on. Screen Time gets activated when an app launches and stays that way as long as the app is open; the clock keeps ticking even if the app is minimized or buried six windows deep on your desktop. To me, that makes it practically useless. There's an app that deals with both of those irritants: CurrentKey (formerly CurrentKey Stats) wraps every Space in a named, icon-coded "Room" you can jump to by hotkey or dropdown, then quietly logs how much time you actually spend in each one, broken down by app. The name lives in CurrentKey's own popover and menu bar, not inside Mission Control itself. I wrote about CurrentKey a couple of years ago (CurrentKey Stats - A Triple Threat App, when it was working through a subscription model — an admitted turn-off for…