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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How-to
Practical browser setups, dashboard workflows and connection guides, with examples and checks you can use.
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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
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
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
