Menu bar recipes for mail and tasks

Numbers from the apps you work in all day. These ask the app itself with AppleScript, so macOS asks you once for permission, and they never open an app that’s closed.

A few of these recipes as live meters, on sample values.

2 recipes

Show your unread Mail count in your Mac menu barHow many unread messages are in Apple Mail’s Inbox, as a number in your Mac menu bar. One AppleScript line, no account passwords, and it never opens Mail for you. (Script meter)
Show your Things Today count in your Mac menu barThe number of open to-dos in Things 3’s Today list, in your Mac menu bar, counting down as you check them off. One AppleScript line; it never opens Things for you. (Script meter)

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If it has a number, it can be a meter. Read it from a web address or JSON API, a shell command, a file, or send it with a multimeter:// link.

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Put it in your menu bar

$19.99 one-time. No subscription. Needs macOS 13 Ventura or later.