Statistics & Grading

AppSwitcher quietly tracks how you work and turns that data into a handful of meaningful numbers. No accounts, no cloud — everything stays on your machine.

Your Productivity Dashboard

Three metrics are shown at a glance: Life Gained, Productivity Streak, and your Muscle Memory Index with its grade and persona.

Life Gained

Every time you switch windows, AppSwitcher compares two things:

• How long Alt-Tab would have taken — estimated using a simple linear scaling, which accounts for the number of apps currently running. More open apps = more scanning time = more time lost.
• How long your AppSwitcher switch actually took — measured directly.

The difference is accumulated over time and shown as Life Gained — the real minutes and hours you’ve reclaimed by not hunting through Alt-Tab.

Productivity Streak

The number of consecutive days you used AppSwitcher. Miss a day and the streak resets. It’s a simple nudge to keep the habit going.

Habit Tracker

The Habit Tracker monitors your transition away from inefficient legacy habits. It runs over the last 30 days and surfaces two signals:

• Alt-Tab Relapse — occurs when you use the standard Windows Alt-Tab menu to find an app instead of pressing a direct AppSwitcher hotkey. Each relapse is counted and shown as a percentage of all your window-switching activity. The lower the number, the better.
• Wasted Keystrokes — the number of extra Tab presses spent scanning through the Alt-Tab carousel that could have been replaced by a single AppSwitcher hotkey press.

A “Sober Streak” counts the consecutive days you’ve gone without an Alt-Tab relapse. The goal is a 95%+ “Cured” rate — the point where AppSwitcher has fully replaced the Alt-Tab habit and your workflow speed is maximised.

Muscle Memory Index & Grading

The Muscle Memory Index is a score from 0 to 100 that reflects how consistently you reach for AppSwitcher instead of Alt-Tab. The scoring rewards deliberate, keyboard-driven switching:

• Static-app switches (manually pinned hotkeys) carry the most weight.
• Dynamic-app switches also score positively, at a slightly lower weight.
• Alt-Tab relapses are penalised.

The principle is straightforward: the more you use AppSwitcher — especially your pinned static hotkeys — the higher your score climbs.

Note

Your grade improves as you reach for AppSwitcher instead of Alt-Tab. Pinning your most-used apps to static hotkeys gives the biggest score boost. Not sure which apps to pin? Dynamic Mode can handle the rest automatically.

Grade Table

Grade	Score	Persona
S	≥ 96	Shadow Walker
A	≥ 85	Teleporter
B	≥ 70	The Navigator
C	≥ 50	Learner
D	≥ 30	Novice
F	< 30	Alt-Tabber

Persona Glossary

Persona	What it means
Shadow Walker	You move between windows without thinking. AppSwitcher is pure reflex — Alt-Tab is a distant memory.
Teleporter	Near-instant, deliberate switching. You know exactly where you’re going before you press the key.
The Navigator	Solid habits are forming. You reach for AppSwitcher most of the time and only occasionally fall back.
Learner	You’re building the muscle memory. More than half your switches are already keyboard-driven.
Novice	You’ve started the journey. Keep reaching for those hotkeys and the score will follow.
Alt-Tabber	Old habits die hard. AppSwitcher is installed — now it’s time to start using it.