dash-b · Use cases · Personal space

One screen that is yours, and answers to nobody else.

Every app you use was designed for the average of a million people. This one is designed by you, for one: the six things you actually check, arranged the way your head arranges them, with nothing else on the page asking for attention.

Ready to open

Eight boards that could be yours tonight

Each card is a real design in the library. Click it and it opens in the designer — rename it, recolour it, strip it for parts, make it answer to you.

Type it, and see it here

Say what your screen should have on it

Pick one of these, or type what your day actually turns on — and watch the board build itself. The shapes are the real widgets; the numbers are missing because they are not yours yet.

The morning check, in one glance

Not a feed, not a timeline, nothing recommended. The weather you care about, the money you have, the thing you said you would do today, and a picture you like.

Somewhere to think that nobody else designed.Six things you chose, on a screen with nothing else asking for you.

Subtraction, mostly

The good part is what you leave off

Every dashboard you have been given was filled up by somebody who was paid to fill it up. Yours can hold six things. It can hold four. The empty half of the page is not a gap to be filled — it is the reason the board works.

Nothing here is fighting for your attention, because nothing here was put there by anybody whose job depends on your attention.

Your data, and only yours

Drop a file on it and it becomes a chart

A spreadsheet of what you spent. A list of the runs you did. The readings from the thing on your wrist, exported. Drop the file on a tile and the tile draws it — no account anywhere, no upload to anybody, nothing sent off your machine while you are designing.

If you would rather it stayed that way forever, it can: export the finished board as a page and keep it on your own computer. It is a file. It works with the internet switched off.

Expressing yourself, actually

It should look like something you made, not something you were issued

Colour, typeface, corners, spacing, the picture behind it, whether the tiles sit in a grid or drift across a canvas — all of it is yours to set. A hundred and seventy-five widgets and forty-eight typefaces is not a boast; it is the difference between a page that is yours and a page you have been allocated.

Change your mind at midnight and change it back at breakfast. Nobody has to approve it.

On whatever you have

The tablet in the drawer becomes the best screen in the house

A board is a web page, so anything with a browser can show it. The seven-year-old tablet nobody uses, propped up beside the kettle, is a perfectly good place for the morning check. No app store, no install, no minimum version.

Sign in and the same design follows you to the laptop and the phone. Or do not sign in, and it stays exactly where you made it.

Where the line is

Free is not a trial here

The whole designer is open from the first minute: every widget, every ready-made design, every language, no card and no clock. Make the board, export it, keep it. That path costs nothing and always will.

What costs money is us keeping it for you — saved across your devices, published at a link, connected to a database. Which is a fair place to put the line, and it means the free tier is not a demo of the product; it is the product.