I was unlocking my phone 60 times a day just to see my todos, calendar, and unread counts.

Every unlock pulled me out of whatever I was doing.

So I built a black-and-white display that shows it all at a glance.

It sits on my desk like a picture frame.

No backlight. No notifications. No sounds.

How it works:

• Raspberry Pi driving a 7.5" Waveshare e-ink panel
• Server renders the whole screen as an 800×480 1-bit PNG with node-canvas
• The Pi just fetches the image and draws it (e-ink hates fast refreshes, so this keeps it sipping power)
• Pulls from Todoist, Google Calendar, weather, and RSS
• Updates every 30 minutes

Now, phone unlocks dropped from 60 a day to about 15.

The info didn't go anywhere, it just stopped living behind a lock screen.

It is completely free and open-source (still in wip)

https://quietdash.com

EDIT: wrong title, I didn't build the eink display, I built the dashboard that lives on it