AI custom widgets: small dashboard tools worth building
Turn a useful idea into an AI custom widget. Six practical examples, better prompts and a preview checklist for tools you will actually use.
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- 6 min read
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- How-to, Dashy
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Practical guides to new tab dashboards, AI assistants, custom widgets and a calmer browser. Comparisons that explain the tradeoffs.
Subscribe with RSSAI dashboard privacy: what can it see, send and change?
Understand AI dashboard privacy before connecting accounts: local data, cloud prompts, MCP permissions, custom widgets and how to choose what you share.
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- 5 min read
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- Privacy, Dashy
Best AI new tab dashboard: what is actually useful?
Choosing an AI new tab dashboard? Compare built-in chat, connected actions and custom widgets, with Momentum today and Dashy V2's preview explained.
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- 5 min read
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- New tab, Comparisons, Dashy
Best productivity dashboards with AI: five different fits
Compare AI productivity dashboards for personal focus, documents, team tasks and automation. Where Momentum, Notion, ClickUp, Taskade and Dashy V2 fit.
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- 6 min read
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- Comparisons, Dashy
Claude and your dashboard: useful MCP workflows to plan
Plan useful Claude dashboard workflows with MCP: focused notes, clear tasks and careful layout changes. Includes example prompts and Dashy V2's status.
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- 5 min read
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- How-to, Dashy
Connect a new tab dashboard to ChatGPT: a practical guide
A ChatGPT shortcut is not a dashboard connection. Learn what MCP adds, which permissions matter and how to verify that a dashboard action really worked.
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- 5 min read
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- How-to, New tab, Dashy
Google Calendar on your new tab: a dashboard that helps
Plan a Google Calendar new tab dashboard without duplicating your schedule. Compare shortcuts and integrations, permissions, useful layouts and AI limits.
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- 5 min read
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- How-to, New tab
A minimalist productivity dashboard you will keep using
Build a calm new tab dashboard with a few useful widgets, readable wallpaper and optional AI. A practical layout guide with a one-week review.
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- 5 min read
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- New tab, How-to
Side-panel notes: a better workflow for reading the web
Keep notes beside the page you are reading. A practical side-panel workflow for source links, quotations, comparisons and careful AI summaries.
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- 5 min read
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- How-to, New tab
A student dashboard setup for classes, deadlines and focus
Organize a student new tab dashboard around the next assignment, class links, notes and study sessions. Includes a practical layout and careful AI use.
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- 5 min read
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- How-to, New tab
Are New Tab Extensions Safe? Permissions Explained
A new tab page needs one permission. Here is what the others mean, how to read a Chrome Web Store listing, and the red flags worth walking away from.
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- 13 min read
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- Privacy, Dashy
The best new tab extensions for Chrome in 2026, compared
Ten new tab pages compared on one day: users, ratings, prices, free-tier limits and browsers, with the store listing behind every number.
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- 16 min read
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- New tab, Comparisons, Dashy
How to Change Your New Tab Page in Chrome (2026)
Chrome has no setting for a custom new tab URL. Here are the four ways that work, with the exact clicks, plus the same steps for Edge and Brave.
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- 10 min read
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- New tab, How-to
Momentum alternatives: new tab dashboards that do more for free
Momentum Plus gates soundscapes, Tab Stash and AI. Eight new tab dashboards compared on what each gives you free, with store data checked September 2026.
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- 14 min read
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- Comparisons, Dashy
Start page vs dashboard vs homepage: what is the difference?
Chrome's homepage, startup page and new tab page are three separate settings. What each one does, and how start pages, dashboards and minimal pages differ.
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- 13 min read
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- New tab, Comparisons
Tabliss vs Bonjourr vs Dashy: minimal new tabs compared
Tabliss stopped updating in 2022. Bonjourr is 1.38 MiB and collects nothing. Dashy adds widgets, sound and time of day. A sourced three-way comparison.
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- 13 min read
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- Comparisons, Dashy
Why is my new tab Yahoo, Bing or blank? How to fix Chrome's new tab
Yahoo, Bing or an empty page in your new tab is a changed setting, not a virus. Find what changed, remove it, and stop it coming back.
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- 13 min read
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- New tab, How-to
