Totem Bar

Totem Bar pins a custom label to your Mac's menu bar so you always know which machine you're looking at. Inspired by the "totem" from Inception — a small object you check to confirm reality — Totem Bar is built for anyone who juggles multiple Macs: work and personal, client A and client B, production and staging.

Set any text you want. Leave it on "Auto" width, or lock it to a fixed pt width for a consistent menu-bar footprint. When your label is longer than the fixed width, Totem Bar truncates it cleanly, or (with overflow scroll enabled) marquees the full text across the bar.

KEY FEATURES
• Always-on menu bar label — any text, any length
• Auto or fixed-width display (40–300 pt)
• Tail-truncation or smooth marquee scrolling for long text
• URL scheme (totem://set?text=...) to update the label from the command line or scripts — show the current hostname, IP address, git branch, or anything else you can pipe from a shell
• Launch at login
• Accessory app — no Dock icon, no clutter
• Fully localized in English and Japanese
• Lightweight: native Swift, no background CPU when idle

TOTEM BAR PRO (one-time unlock)
• Color presets (White on Red, Yellow on Black, and more)
• Custom text color
• Custom background color with transparency

Totem Bar is the kind of tool you set up once and forget about — until the day it saves you from typing into the wrong machine.