People are digging TerminalWidget, which I’m both surprised and delighted by. I really wasn’t sure people would “get” it when I first started working on it (all the way up to the day I launched it). The most common review, though, is some form of “this looks awesome but I don’t know what to do with it.”

I’m sharing my personal dashboard in this post as a concrete example of what can be done. There are a hundred ways to use TerminalWidget, but that kind of flexibility can be overwhelming. So here’s what I do to have all of this information visible with just a spread of my fingers on the trackpad (or hitting F11).

Click around the image to see details on each widget in a box below it1.

My TerminalWidget monitoring dashboard
Tap a widget to see how it updates.

Almost every one of these widgets was created with the help of my AI agent. You don’t have to learn all of the ins and outs of TerminalWidget to make a beautiful and useful dashboard. Just point your agent at the documentation and tell it what you want to display/chart/graph.

If you haven’t checked out TerminalWidget yet, you can see how it works, get recipes, and preview every widget type at terminalwidget.app.

  1. This took some doing, by the way. I built a tool that allowed me to drag zones onto the image, add ids and descriptions, and then output a YAML file I could use in a Jekyll include to describe each widget. I don’t know if I’ll ever use it again, but it was kind of a fun project this morning. ↩