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 all the information your family needs on a single screen — generated fresh by AI each day, before anyone's up.

The dashboard is ready before you are

DinkyDash writes the day's dashboard at 6am, or whenever you'd rather have it. 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 4pm? Dentist at 3:30? 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

Every morning there's a new headline, written 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

6:00am — DinkyDash wakes up before your family. It fetches today's calendar events, rotates the chores, calculates the countdowns, and asks Claude to write today's dashboard. The JSON is saved and ready to display.

7:15am — 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.

7:30am — Over breakfast, your son reads the headline out: "Two fun runs for our champions." Everyone knows which morning it is.

7:45am — Before heading out, you glance at the calendar section. Right — your son has a dentist appointment at 4pm. Almost forgot.

Getting started

DinkyDash is free, open source, and runs on a Raspberry Pi. Set it up once, and your family gets a new dashboard every day without lifting a finger. Check out the GitHub repository to get started.

Last updated 2026-10-03.