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Brief
Life Dashboard started as a personal frustration. Productivity tools were filing cabinets I had to maintain, not a system that worked with me. I wanted a daily briefing surface that ingested everything I cared about, calendar, health metrics, journal entries, project context, and surfaced what mattered for the day.
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Approach
Built as a Next.js application with Claude orchestrating the daily-briefing layer and a small model bus for routine summarisation. The product design problem is harder than the engineering one: how do you make an AI-curated dashboard feel like a coach rather than another stream of notifications. Iterating in public with my own data was the only way to test the brief honestly.
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Outcome
Currently at v0.3. The briefing layer runs daily, the information architecture stabilised after three rewrites, and the next milestone is a multi-user version with a focused share model. Build notes and rationale are posted at intervals on LinkedIn.