The Family Dashboard, at family.wanessalabs.com, is a household operating system built around one weekly habit: a Sunday review where the adults in the house agree on the week in about thirty minutes.
It was built for our family first. Other families can now connect their own Sheet. It is in beta, so expect rough edges.
Try it without signing in
Open the demo from the home page. It loads a sample household set in the current week, so you can click through the Sunday review, the boards, and the planners. Changes you make in the demo stay in your browser.
The pages
Sunday review (home). The week at a glance: a seven-day board, who covers each drop-off and pick-up, dinners, kid activities, and this week’s decisions and action items. A guided six-step review walks through gratitude, the schedule, dinner and groceries, date night, home upkeep, and the week’s priorities. It closes with the happiness jar, where you drop in a good moment from the week. When you are done, one button copies a summary of the week to paste into the family group chat.
Date nights. A board of ideas, plans, and finished dates. “Surprise us” picks one for you, and you can rate a date afterwards.
Trips. A board for trip planning, with school holidays marked. It links to Clem’s Travels for itineraries and maps.
Long weekends. For any year, it finds the holidays where one or two days of leave turn into four to six days off in a row, and drafts the leave request for you.
Finances. A decision room for big purchases and savings ideas, plus a guided quarterly budget meeting. It does not connect to your bank.
Home maintenance. A recurring maintenance checklist and a log of home improvements, with a printable version.
Mental load. A partners-only page for naming and sharing the invisible work of running a household.
Kitchen display. A full-screen view for a tablet on the counter: the time, today’s drop-offs, tonight’s dinner, and a checklist for getting out the door. It can keep the screen awake.
Meals and groceries. Plan the week’s dinners and get a grocery list sorted by section. Recipes link out to Recipe Flow, which handles cooking timelines.
Connecting your family
- Make a copy of the starter Google Sheet.
- Sign in with Google.
- Paste the link to your copy. The dashboard checks the Sheet’s tabs and columns before it reads anything. It can add missing tabs. It never renames or deletes your columns.
What is stored, and where
Your Google Sheet holds the household’s shared data: the weekly schedule, the boards, and the maintenance list. The dashboard writes back to it when you move a card. It only changes the cells that changed. If someone edited the same row in the Sheet a moment earlier, the dashboard stops and shows you both versions instead of overwriting.
Google Calendar. The dashboard only edits events it created itself.
Your browser holds some features on that device only: budget meeting notes, date ratings, the happiness jar, meal plans, and a few planners. These do not sync to other devices yet.
Our server stores only what it needs to keep you signed in: your Google account ID and email, an encrypted access token, and which Sheet and calendar you connected. It stores no family data.
There are no ads, analytics, or tracking scripts. Disconnecting deletes what the server stored and revokes the dashboard’s access to your Google account. The full privacy policy is at /privacy.