Launching today
QuietDash
Your day on a calm e-ink screen, not your phone
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Your day on a calm e-ink screen, not your phone
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Bring your own e-ink screen. QuietDash runs on any Waveshare panel and a Raspberry Pi you already own, so there's no proprietary device to buy and nothing to import. It renders your dashboard (tasks, calendar, a focus timer, fitness rings) to a crisp 1-bit image and the Pi just displays it. No backlight, no notifications. It runs on your own network, so your data stays home. Open source, made in Europe. My phone unlocks dropped from about 60 a day to 15.
Hey, I'm Florent, the maker. I built QuietDash because I was checking my phone something like 60 times a day for stuff that didn't need a whole phone: how my todos were going, the unread count, how much of the day was left. Every check turned into ten other things.
So I moved those few numbers onto a small e-ink screen that can't show me anything else. I'm down to about 15 unlocks a day now.
The part I'm most proud of is the rendering. It's hard-thresholded to 1-bit so the screen looks crisp instead of muddy grey, and it uses partial refresh so the focus timer can tick without the whole panel flashing. The Pi just grabs the finished image over your LAN.
One honest heads up: this is a work in progress. There's nothing to buy or download yet, and no public release. I'm building it in the open and showing where it's at. The plan is for it to run on any Waveshare panel and a Pi you already own, no proprietary box, no import. Open source, made in Europe.
If the idea speaks to you, I'd love to hear what you'd want on your own screen. Ask me anything, I'm happy to get into the refresh handling or the hardware.
Hi - this looks great.
I have 2 PIs running on my desktop with the 7" display. One shows a rotating set of websites using puppeteer, the other is just a giant clock.
I'd happily trade the clock one for something like this.
Are the display contents configurable?
@parsecxr Thanks, really appreciate it! And ha, I love that you've already got the Pi + 7" setup going. The puppeteer-rotating-sites one sounds like a fun build.
Yeah, the contents are configurable. You choose which widgets show (tasks, calendar, time and date, weather, RSS) and where they sit on the 800x480 layout, all from a web app. Under the hood it's a bit like your puppeteer screen in reverse: instead of screenshotting live sites, a server renders the whole screen to a 1-bit PNG and the Pi just fetches and displays it every 30 min, which keeps it gentle on the e-ink and on power.
It's still early and a work in progress so the widget set is growing, but swapping out your clock Pi is exactly the use case I'm building for. Happy to help you get it running if you want to give it a go.