To fix it for myself I decided that I needed a quick peek at current stats - something that’s always one gesture away and extremely easy so I could do this without any friction.
Unfortunately I use Windows, and Windows has this thing called Widgets. Apparently, that’s exactly the surface I needed. Their docs are terrible and 100% of existing widgets are useless, but the panel is fast enough for my task.
So I crafted Wizible - a Windows 11 widget for Plausible Analytics.
It’s intentionally super simple: open widgets → glance at stats → if something changes, then I open the full dashboard.
It's free, use like 20MB of RAM, and should be relatively secure and pretty fast because I put some real software engineer work there and not vibe-code slop.
It's available in Microsoft Store, I'm also might open-source it if people are interested.
Curious: what’s the ONE metric you’d want on the widget by default? (active visitors / top pages / referrers / conversions?) I choose metrics based on my understanding, but maybe my understanding is wrong.
And: would you prefer "real-time only" or "today vs yesterday" trend at a glance? Thinking how a currently missing "small size" might look.