A dashboard you can actually change

Every module is a plugin, including the ones we wrote. That is not a slogan: it is the same interface, the same permission checks and the same install button for our calendar as for anybody else's.

The twenty-nine modules that ship with it

Every one is installed from the Store and can be removed the same way. Nothing here is a paid extra. A new account starts with Calendar, Todos and Memos, and you add the rest if you want them.

Calendar

Month, week and day views, with real recurrence and sharing. Planning

Todos

Nested subtasks, due dates, priorities and repeat rules. Productivity

Memos

Notes filed into categories, with tags and pinning. Personal

Messages

Talk to the people you are connected to, instantly. Personal

Shopping

A list per shop, shared with whoever does the shopping. Utilities

Contacts

An address book with birthdays, tags and favourites. Personal

Meal Plan

What everyone is eating this week, decided once. Planning

Chores

Who is doing what, and whether they did it. Planning

Recipes

Your recipes, and the shopping list that goes with them. Personal

Workouts

Every kind of training, and the people cheering you on. Health

Habits

Daily targets, streaks and a contribution heatmap. Health

Medications

What to take, when, and whether it has been taken. Health

Flash Cards

Make a deck, drill it, and stop seeing what you know. Productivity

Homework

Classes, what is due, and a nudge before it is. Productivity

Focus

A Pomodoro timer that logs time against a specific task. Productivity

News

The feeds you choose, and nothing you didn’t. Personal

Videos

Playlists you control, and a lock so only those play. Personal

Journal

A line a day, and a year you can see at once. Personal

Subscriptions

Everything charging you monthly, and the yearly total. Finance

Debts

Payoff projections, and avalanche versus snowball compared. Finance

Gifts

Ideas all year, so December is not a panic. Personal

Home Inventory

What you own, what it cost, and when the warranty ends. Utilities

Vehicles

Service history, mileage, and the dates that cost money. Utilities

Clock & Alarms

A clock, world times, a timer, a stopwatch and alarms. Utilities

Weather

Current conditions, hourly and a seven-day forecast. Utilities

Calculator

Simple by default, scientific when you need it. Utilities

Memory

Learn a passage by filling in the words that are missing. Personal

Reminders

One thing to remember, as many nudges as it takes. Productivity

Bookmarks

Every link worth keeping, in one place you can search. Productivity

How a third-party plugin is kept at arm's length

A plugin store is a way of inviting other people's code near your calendar. These are the four things that stop that being reckless.

It cannot see your session

Third-party plugins render in a sandboxed frame with no same-origin access. No cookie, no token, and no way to call the API directly. Everything it does goes through a message channel the dashboard controls.

It must ask, by name

A plugin declares the permissions it needs in its manifest, and they are listed on the button you press to install it. Without contacts:read it cannot read your contacts — not as a matter of policy, but because the request is refused.

It is read before it is published

Submitted code is uploaded to a quarantined area and is never executed there. It is hashed, checked automatically, then read by a person, and only then does the bundle become fetchable at all. Review lowers the risk; it does not remove it.

It can be switched off

Removing a plugin cuts its access immediately. If a published plugin turns out to be a problem it can be disabled for everyone at once, and its bundle, its sandbox and its API calls all stop together.

What a plugin can ask for

Scoped by module and by direction, so read-only is genuinely read-only.
  • calendar:read and calendar:write
  • todos:read and todos:write
  • memos:read and memos:write
  • contacts:read and contacts:write
  • debts:read and debts:write
  • habits:read and habits:write
  • focus:read and focus:write
  • alarms:read and alarms:write
  • weather:read, and profile:read for your name and time zone
  • storage — a private store no other plugin can see
  • notifications:send

Sensitive by default

Anything touching money or the address book is flagged in the install dialog rather than listed quietly among the rest. You should have to think for a second before granting it.

Browse what is available

The Store lives inside the dashboard, at the bottom of the navigation bar.

LifeHQ

A personal dashboard for the things you are juggling. Free, installable, and yours to extend.