dash-b · Design gallery · Family board
The one screen the house actually looks at.
Not a work dashboard with the logo swapped. A board for the hallway tablet or the kitchen laptop: what the weather is doing, who is out when, what needs buying, how long until the thing everybody is counting down to.
Why this page exists
Every household already runs on six apps and a whiteboard
The calendar is in one place, the shopping list in another, the weather in a third, and the countdown to the holiday is in somebody's head. None of it is hard. It is just scattered, and scattered means nobody looks at any of it.
A board is one screen with all six on it. It is worth building because you only build it once and then it is simply there, on whatever device already sits in the kitchen.
What goes on it
Tiles that already exist, arranged for a house
The day
Today, an agenda, the days ahead, a schedule for the week. Public holidays and days off so nobody plans a dentist appointment on a bank holiday. Name days, if your family keeps them.
Outside
Weather where you actually are, sunrise and sunset, the moon, air quality on the days it matters. A street map for the school run, and a route with how long it takes at this hour.
Lists and notes
A to-do list anyone can tick off. Notes for the things that are not tasks — the wifi password, the vet's number, what to do with the bins.
Counting down
A countdown to the holiday, the birthday, the exam. A timer for the thing in the oven. Clocks set to wherever the rest of the family is, so nobody rings Australia at four in the morning.
Whatever else you follow
The news in your country this hour. Exchange rates, if somebody is paid in another currency. Anything from the catalogue — there are a hundred and seventy-five tiles and none of them are decoration.
Something for the children
There are games in the catalogue too — pairs, a sliding puzzle, minesweeper, 2048. On a hallway tablet that is not a gimmick; it is the reason a child walks past and looks at the board.
How to get one
Three ways in, all of them free to try
- Take a finished design and empty it. Open any of the 256 in the gallery, keep the one whose look you like, and swap the tiles for the ones above.
- Describe it. Say what you want in a sentence and let the generator make the edit to the design you already have — never a replacement, so one undo puts it back.
- Start from nothing. An empty grid and the catalogue down the side.
Designing costs nothing and needs no account. Nothing you put on the board leaves your browser while you are building it.
Getting it onto the wall
What is free, and what is not
On the free plan you can build the board, keep five of them, and export a standalone page — one file you can put on the kitchen machine, or on any server you already have. That is enough for a household board and always will be.
Publishing a link that other people open without an account, and connecting a database of your own, are on the paid plans. A family board rarely needs either.
It takes an afternoon, once.
Then it is the screen in the hall that everybody glances at on the way out of the door.