Actual Qt screenshots. Real desktop workflow.

A side-monitor dashboard that keeps the day moving.

Vertical Dashboard turns a spare vertical display into a live command center for planning, notification triage, system awareness, device status, and quick capture without burying any of it behind browser tabs.

Quick Start View GitHub Repo
  • Calendar, tasks, notifications, devices, and systems stay visible at the same time.
  • Built for a vertical side monitor, not a browser dashboard squeezed into a tab.
  • Every screenshot on this page comes from the real PyQt app running in marketing demo mode.
Vertical Dashboard showing the Now, Calendar, and Tasks sections
Plan the next two days without leaving the dashboard.

Use Cases

One panel, four recurring jobs.

Run the day

See the current event, what is due today, what is overdue, and how much free time is left before the next block starts.

Cut through notification noise

Keep the unread and high-priority feed visible so Slack, GitHub, Calendar, and system alerts stop turning into background clutter.

Watch the room

Track Wi-Fi, CPU, RAM, temperature, and the online state of important devices without opening another monitoring stack.

Catch follow-ups before they disappear

Throw loose ideas into the inbox, promote them into tasks, and keep a small personal operations board beside your main work.

Screenshots

Vertical Dashboard overview on a vertical monitor layout
Overview: the top-level dashboard with planning, notifications, and controls in one strip.
Vertical Dashboard notifications feed
Notifications: triage unread and high-priority items before they derail the rest of the day.
Vertical Dashboard systems and devices sections
Systems and Devices: keep local machine health and key devices visible from the same panel.

Why It Works

A desktop workflow, not another web dashboard.

Desktop first

PyQt window, local storage, system integrations, and device actions live where the work already happens.

Always visible

The layout is tuned for a vertical monitor so the panel can stay docked beside your main screen instead of fighting for focus.

Configurable

Section order, refresh cadence, generated files, Google sync, device definitions, and cleanup all stay editable from the app.

Quick Start

Run it locally.

There is no packaged installer in this repo yet. The current path is source-based and takes a few minutes: 

cd VerticalDashboard
python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/python -m pip install -r vertical_dashboard_pyqt/requirements.txt
.venv/bin/python -m vertical_dashboard_pyqt --width 640

Want the reproducible screenshot set used on this page? Run .venv/bin/python -m vertical_dashboard_pyqt --marketing-demo --capture-dir landing/assets/screenshots.