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The family calendar nobody opens helps nobody, so DinkyDash puts it on a screen the household walks past. Paste in iCal links from Google, iCloud and Outlook calendars and the board merges them into one agenda in time order, big enough to read from across the kitchen, with tomorrow tucked underneath when the day leaves room. A personal calendar can share only the events marked for a partner and keep work and private appointments to itself. Chores answer the daily argument on their own: whose turn it is moves on with the date, so nobody ticks anything off. Birthdays, holidays and special dates count down in the corner, and once a day the board gets a fresh headline written about your actual day, with a useful note parked under the agenda. Light and dark themes come from the settings page, and that same settings page on your phone edits the configuration file directly, comments preserved. A preview page shows the board at Pi, TV and tablet sizes side by side before you mount anything. There is deliberately no login: it assumes your home network, rewards you with a board you never sign into, and asks to stay behind a VPN or an authenticated proxy if you view it away from home. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.
Benefits
- One Agenda For Every Calendar
- Google, iCloud and Outlook calendars merge through plain iCal links with no account sign-in, and a personal calendar can expose only shared events, keeping the rest private.
- Chore Arguments, Settled Daily
- Whose turn each chore is advances with the date itself, not with a checkbox, so the rota on the wall is always current and nobody has to keep score.
- Readable From The Sofa
- Big type, light and dark themes, and a layout designed for distance put the day on a television, an old tablet or a Raspberry Pi screen everyone already owns.
- Configured From Your Phone
- The settings page writes the same configuration file you could edit by hand, preserving your comments, so calendars, chores and countdowns change without touching a terminal.
Features
- Merged iCal Agenda
- Any number of Google, iCloud and Outlook calendars combine through pasted iCal links, refreshed hourly, with the day in time order and tomorrow below.
- Automatic Chore Rota
- Turns rotate by date with nothing to tick off, recomputed on every render, so the names on the wall are right even after a missed day.
- Birthday Countdowns
- Birthdays, holidays and special dates count down with ages worked out for you, always correct on the day itself rather than when data was last generated.
- Daily AI Headline
- Once a day at a time you set, a headline is written about the day on the board; if a run fails, the agenda, turns and countdowns stay current.
- Settings Without SSH
- Open the settings page from a phone to change calendars, chores, themes and schedules; it writes the same commented configuration file the server reads.