This is a brithday day gift to my dad, made in godot, and attempting to 'recreate' a small part of Red Dead Redemption 2
I am making desktop dashboard built with Tauri and a Python backend. It pulls in Canvas assignments, Google Calendar events, a reading list with auto-fetched book covers, project tracking, monthly goals, a Spotify embed, and a personal photo board, all in one draggable, customizable grid that runs locally and saves its layout. How this application improves quality of life: 1. It cuts down on app-switching. Instead of checking Canvas, a calendar app, a reading list, and Spotify separately, everything sits in one place. 2. It tells you when something changes instead of making you check. Canvas gets polled automatically, and new assignments trigger a notification, so nothing depends on remembering to log in. 3. It's actually yours. The layout is draggable, you can drop your own photos in, and the whole thing looks the way you want it to. That matters more than it sounds for whether someone keeps using a tool at all.
a macropad!