Developer Dale Gillard has introduced Token 1.0 (http://dalegillard.com/token.html), a Mac menu bar app designed to make iWork faster. Recent iWork documents and templates open directly from Token in the Mac menu bar.

Available exclusively on the Mac App Store, Token automatically saves your iWork documents every 10 minutes so you can relax and focus, says Gillard. iWork will do more using simple AppleScripts you can download and customize to do your own tasks, he adds.

Token requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later and any one of the iWork ’09 apps. It costs US$4.99 and is available through the Mac App Store in the Productivity category.