Transform Your Family's Morning Routine
Mornings with kids are chaos. Between getting dressed, making breakfast, remembering school bags, and getting out the door on time, the last thing you need is to be everyone's personal assistant answering questions about the day ahead.
DinkyDash helps by putting what your family needs to know on a single screen, already up to date before anyone's awake.
The dashboard is ready before you are
DinkyDash writes the day's headline at 06:00, or whenever you'd rather have it, and your calendars refresh every hour. By the time your family walks into the kitchen, today's dashboard is already on the screen:
- What's happening today — all calendar events at a glance, so everyone knows the plan
- Whose turn for chores — no arguments, the dashboard says so
- Countdowns — how many days until the things everyone keeps asking about
- A headline — written around the day, so the screen has a name for the morning
Five ways DinkyDash improves mornings
1. Kids check the dashboard instead of asking you
"What are we doing today?" "When is my playdate?" "How many days until my birthday?" All answered on the screen. Kids learn to look at the dashboard first, which means fewer interruptions while you're making coffee.
2. Chore time is no longer a negotiation
The dashboard rotates chores automatically. Today it's Lily's turn for dishes, tomorrow it's Sam's. It's right there on the screen in a coloured badge. Fair, visible, non-negotiable.
3. No one forgets what's happening after school
Swimming practice at 16:00? Dentist at 15:30? It's all on the dashboard, pulled directly from your Google Calendar. Kids can read it themselves and know what to expect.
4. The headline gives the day a name
Each day there's a new headline, written at the time you set, around what's actually on. "Friday brings two fun runs" on a sports day, and a plain "Nothing booked in today" when the calendar is clear. It gives the family a line to read out loud.
5. The mental load gets lighter
Instead of keeping everyone's schedule and chore assignments in your head, it's all on the screen. The AI writes the headline; the rota and the countdown maths look after themselves. You just glance at it like everyone else.
What a DinkyDash morning looks like
06:00 — Before your family is up, Claude reads the day ahead and writes the headline. The calendar was already refreshed an hour ago, and the chores and countdowns move on with the date by themselves.
07:15 — Your daughter walks into the kitchen and checks the screen. "Only 12 days until my birthday!" She sees it's her brother's turn to feed the cat. No arguments.
07:30 — Over breakfast, your son reads the headline out: "Two fun runs for our champions." Everyone knows which morning it is.
07:45 — Before heading out, you glance at the calendar section. Right — your son has a dentist appointment at 16:00. Almost forgot.
Getting started
Set it up once, and your family gets a fresh dashboard every day without lifting a finger.
We host it. Paste a calendar link and open your dashboard on any screen with a browser. Free for 14 days, and we don't ask for a card. After that it's $39 a year or $6 a month. Start free.
You host it. It's open source and free on your own machine, with your own Anthropic key at about $0.13 a month. The setup guide has the commands.
Last updated 2026-10-09.