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Ask HN: Which personal dashboard solution do you use?

4 points by woogiewonka ↗ HN
I'm looking to organize all of my life's information into a single dashboard - things like financial, health, goals and progress information. For example, I want to be able to pull up the dashboard and see things like: My IRA info, bank balance, Apple Health data, analytics data for certain web properties I care about, stock information, perhaps a few posts from HN or certain Reddit subs I follow. Basically, all the things I might check on any given day, in one place so I just glance at it and be done. I imagine it would need the ability to add custom types of charts, perhaps connect via API to various services etc... Does anything like this exists?

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Heh. Me too! I haven't found anything good yet.

I've started to spec out what I want, and have been looking at APIs (or scraping) for the various information I want to track. Some of it is fairly easy (the web/server monitoring), some of it hard (bank access).

I was sorta surprised I couldn't find an established solution, honestly.

woogiewonka
Possibly too complex of a tool with not enough demand for it? It probably takes a certain type of individual (like us) to care about this sort of thing or to even think about it. Personally, I hate wasting time looking at 20 different things every time I want to get a complete picture of something. Imagine you had a dashboard where you could not only connect services, but add your own charts, documents, info, stickies, whatever.

Now that I think about it, I wonder how much could just be done with Zapier, google docs and some other services out there. Time to research!

bigiain
Isn't that called "a smartphone"?
woogiewonka
You still have to check everything manually one by one. Imagine if you wanted to check 15 things, that could take a while whereas a dashboard would show you all the info you wanted to know in 1 place.
fregolix
Thats an OS system specific problem. I use blackberry for this very reason, everything in one place
Odenwaelder
One idea would be to use something like Grafana or Superset, but you'd still need an ETL pipeline behind everything.