Hey all,
I’ve recently undertaken a personal project that I hope will make my day-to-day activities on a the web a bit more efficient. I’ve always dreamed of having the perfect home page for myself; one that had all my most crucial data at a glance. Unfortunately, all the services I’ve tried have fallen short (*cough* netvibes *cough*). So, I’ve decided that enough is enough; I am going to build my own dashboard.
The dashboard will take quite a few cues from the interface of The STAT Codex, in so far that it will be window/panel based and entirely modular, but it will be customized to my needs.
At the very least, I want the dashboard to pull the following data:
- email module (gmail and others, just reading, sending can open up a new window in the email client.)
- twitter module (multiple accounts…send and receive tweets)
- a twitter favorites module that allows my to follow the favorited tweets of various twitter accounts
- instapaper module for items to be read
- remember the milk module for to-do items
- major site statistics module (only for my most active web properties)
- new incoming backlinks module
- paypal module for showing paypal balance and recent transactions
- google calendar module
- log monitor module (would tail the server logs for most active web properties)
What else would you add to the list? What data would you love to have at a click on your home page?
Well, links of course — the dozen or so sites I visit most on one page, all my own websites on another.
Sounds like iGoogle
use iGoogle.
It can do everything except pay pal authentication.
I’m at a point right now where I am moving everything I do AWAY from Google, so…..yeah…no iGoogle for ME!
I’ve been doing this for quite some time now and it cuts down my wasted time tremendously. Just in the url typing alone.
I have an integrated Google search on my custom built home page with options to change search providers, a serious of “quick links” in columns such as personal, business, etc. An attractive background. I’m also in the works of pulling various data about my websites and key company information so I can get a glance at my entire network in real time.
Me too: No Google Analytics on any page, no Gmail at all.
Plus I’m using Firefox profiles with different proxies for different Adwords accounts.
Though aven’t found a replacement for Google Reader yet. Any ideas beside newsgator and bloglines (both suck)?
Links to igoogle
Avoid anything that google could use to nail you. Are you some sort of tool?
Stop making it easy for them.
If I were building a dash, it would have to include some sort of list of url’s with an ability to filter by niche.
looking forward to seeing how you implement this. personally i would add:
– current balance for 2 bank checking accounts (business and personal, not sure how easy it would be to integrate with these banks)
– current balance for personal and bank credit cards
– events in the next 24 hrs from my google calendar
Guys, these are all amazing ideas. Thanks for sharing.
You forgot the rss feeds