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Build a personal dashboard

Weekend project · Use what you have · Easy

Create one screen for the information you repeatedly check, such as a calendar, weather, reminders or household jobs. Make it useful at a glance rather than another page full of widgets.

Laptop screen showing a dark analytics dashboard with charts, graphs and performance metrics.
Photo by Speedcurve Performance Analytics on Unsplash

Do it

  1. Write down the three things you most often look up.
  2. Choose a screen, browser page or small computer to display them.
  3. Build a rough layout with large, readable sections.
  4. Add one data source at a time.
  5. Leave it running for a week and remove anything you ignore.

What next?

Keep the useful notes, photograph the result if there is one, then go and find something else to do.