Family coordination fails when the information lives in separate places: calendars, meal plans, travel notes, school logistics, date nights, budgets. The Family Dashboard puts all of it behind one URL, anchored on a weekly Sunday review.
It started as a read-only agenda. It’s now in alpha as the household’s operating system, and two projects that used to stand alone live inside it as tabs: the Date Night Planner and the Budget Meeting.
Anyone can open the interactive demo with a sample household. Nothing needs connecting.
The Tabs
| Tab | What it’s for |
|---|---|
| Sunday review | The weekly agenda and a guided review of the week ahead |
| Date nights | The Date Night Planner: a board, Surprise Us, and evening itineraries |
| Family trips | A trip board fed by Clem’s Travels, with annual summits and a bucket list |
| Home maintenance | A recurring checklist by season, plus an improvement log for projects, costs, and warranties |
| Finances | The Budget Meeting ritual, big-purchase decisions, and savings ideas |
| Kitchen | A countertop display for the tablet on the counter |
Machines Fetch. Humans Curate.
The family’s data isn’t trapped in an app database. A permissioned Google Sheet is the source of truth: the family can edit it on a phone with plain dropdowns, or use the dashboard.
A Cloudflare Worker is the one sanctioned writer to the Sheet and Google Calendar. It checks for drift before every write: if someone edited that cell in the Sheet in the meantime, the write stops and the conflict is shown instead of overwritten.
The Sunday Review
A six-step guided walkthrough for Sunday mornings on the couch:
- Gratitude and connection. Wins and a look back at the week.
- Schedule and shuttles. The school pickup and drop-off grid, with gaps flagged.
- Dinner and groceries. The week’s dinners from Recipe Flow, plus a grocery list built from them.
- Date night. Upcoming dates and a Surprise Us pick, straight from the Date Nights tab.
- Home upkeep. This month’s preventive maintenance, with seasonal priorities.
- Big rocks. The one or two non-negotiables for the week.
How It Connects to the Rest
The dashboard doesn’t rebuild what already exists elsewhere. It links to it.
- Recipe Flow (recipe.wanessalabs.com): each dinner in the week links to its recipe. The plan flags quick meals when the calendar is crowded, and marks date night dinners out. A Smart Groceries list merges every planned recipe’s ingredients into Produce, Meat, Dairy, and Pantry, with checkboxes and a plain-text copy for the shared note.
- Clem’s Travels (travel.listsof30.com): the trip board opens the curated plans from travel.listsof30.com, searchable by continent and vibe, and Add to Ideas drops one onto the board with its globe, atlas, and Wanderlog links.
- Date Night Planner and Budget Meeting: both live here as tabs now. Date night also has its own step in the Sunday review.
- Evie’s Arcade: a shortcut to her favourite games on the Wanessa Labs hub: Kalimba Easy, 2048, Sudoku, Anagram Daily, Cube Trainer, Learn to Draw, and the Dishwasher game.
- Clembot: a pulse card on the agenda sums up pickup gaps, urgent items, and upcoming dates, with a link to ask Clembot about anything else.
There’s more on the agenda too: a happiness jar, a family values card, a kids’ activity and camp planner, and an estate readiness checklist on the Finances tab.
Kitchen Display
/ambient turns the dashboard into a kiosk for a countertop tablet: a high-contrast clock, today’s schedule, tonight’s dinner, and Evie’s Arcade. Screen Wake Lock keeps it from going to sleep.
Technical Architecture
The frontend is a React, Vite, and Tailwind single-page app with lazy-loaded routes. The backend is a Hono app on Cloudflare Workers, with Cloudflare D1 for sessions and encrypted OAuth tokens.
The agenda engine is pure TypeScript with no runtime I/O and takes the date as an argument, so it gives the same answer for the same week every time. Static snapshot fallbacks keep the Sunday review working if the tablet at the kitchen table goes offline.
Status
Alpha. The dashboard runs for one family and as a public demo. Some newer features (budget meeting records, date itineraries, and ratings) are saved in the browser for now. The Sheet-backed boards and the calendar are shared across devices.