Help / Your first day

Your first day with Warashi

Where to look on your first day with Warashi, what fills in over time, and the shortcuts worth knowing.

Help menu

Warashi starts measuring the moment it opens. Here's a short walk through the places you'll use most, and what to expect in the days after.

  1. Glance at the menu bar

    The number beside the spirit is live. If it turns into a warning with ▲, something needs you: click it to see what.

    The Warashi spirit and 20% in the menu bar
  2. Click the spirit for the popover

    The popover shows CPU, memory, GPU, power, temperature, network, disk and battery, plus the busiest apps. Click outside it or press Escape to close it. More in Menu bar & popover.

    The Warashi popover with CPU, memory, GPU, power, temperature, network, disk, battery and top apps
    The popover.
  3. Hover the notch

    On a MacBook with a notch, rest the pointer on the notch for a moment and it opens into a mini dashboard. Move away and it closes. More in Notch & island.

    The notch opened into a mini dashboard with CPU, memory, power and the three busiest apps
    The notch, open.
  4. Open the window

    Press ⌘O in the popover or click the open notch. The window has Overview, Apps, History, Time × Cost, Upgrade Advisor, Alerts and Settings in the sidebar. See The window & Overview.

    The Warashi window on Overview: Nothing needs you, four instruments, the last 24 hours and the apps costing most
    The window opens on Overview.
  5. Let it record

    Leave Warashi running. History fills in from the first minute, the Upgrade Advisor gives a first look after 7 days and its full report after 30, and Time × Cost shows your days if you turned activity recording on.

Keyboard shortcuts

KeysWhereWhat it does
⌘OPopoverOpen the window
⌘1–⌘6WindowOverview, Apps, History, Time × Cost, Upgrade Advisor, Alerts
⌘,Popover or windowSettings
EscPopover, app drawerClose
Good to know: Warashi is built to be light: in the background it uses about 0.2% of one CPU core and around 30 MB of memory. Settings › General shows exactly what it uses right now.