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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- Reading time
- 6 min read
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- How-to, Dashy
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Dashy
The original Dashy, in the Chrome Web Store today, and the rebuilt one arriving October 2026.
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AI 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
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
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
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
