Summary
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QuietDash – Raspberry Pi eInk desktop dashboard that refreshes infrequently to avoid distractions
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Shows workday progress, tasks, weather, calendar, time and a news/RSS feed at a glance.
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eInk reduces power usage and screen brightness, allowing the board to blend into your workspace
Sometimes it seems like the very tools meant to increase your productivity end up detracting from it. With all the notifications, messages, and pings coming in, I often find myself checking incoming alerts more than doing anything. If you want your productivity helpers to leave you alone for once, you can do a lot worse than build QuietDash, a Raspberry Pi-powered eInk display that doesn’t bother you.
QuietDash won’t invade your workspace with notifications
It also looks great
The creator of QuietDash, fberrez, did an entire article about his invention on GitHub. The idea behind QuietDash is that it controls all the information you’d expect from a DIY dashboard, with one caveat: it’s updated several times a year. hour. This is not something you keep your eyes glued to all day. It’s designed to give you everything you need to know at a glance so you can get back to work in no time.
These are all the features that QuietDash supports:
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A workday progress ring so you can see how much of the day is left at a glance
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Today’s tasks
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Climate
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Calendar
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Time and date
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A news/RSS line
Interestingly, fberrez has a good reasoning behind why they chose an e-ink display for the job. I thought it was because it has a low power consumption profile and is designed specifically for low refresh rates, but fberrez excellently points out that a backlit display is a distraction in itself. By using eInk, QuietDash can blend into the background much more easily than if fberrez used an LCD screen.
While you can create your own via the GitHub page, you can express interest in a pre-built version on the QuietDash website.
