Wall widgets
Every widget the wall display can show, what it reads, and what a tap on it opens: the clock and weather, the day's timeline and this week, meals and the list, chores, points and rewards, timers, notes, sticky notes, checklists, boards, drawings, Ask Margin and web pages.
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On this page
A page on the wall display is made of widgets. A grown-up adds, moves and resizes them in Edit wall. Each widget shows the glance on the page; a tap opens the whole thing, one level down, where the household can act as themselves.
Widgets never scroll. If a widget is small, it shows less, and the whole of it is one tap away.
Home#
| Widget | What it shows | A tap opens |
|---|---|---|
| Clock and date | The time, large, with the date in italic beside it | |
| Weather | The sky drawn in watercolor, the temperature, the high and low and the chance of rain, for the household's town | The town |
| Today's timeline | Today as a ruled line with the hours lettered above it, a needle at now, every event on it with its time, its faces and who it is for, and dinner. It stretches to fit the day (an early flight, a late party); anything still outside is counted at the ends. In its settings: fit the day, waking hours, the whole day, or your own hours | The calendar |
| What's next | The thing that matters at this hour (the school run, the next event, dinner, tomorrow) on a tinted plate | That event, or the jobs |
| The nameplate | The front page's masthead: the time, the next thing in the ear and the dateline | |
| The cover | The household's cover: the time, the date, tonight's dinner and the next thing on | |
| A drawing | A quiet drawing for a corner: the season's botanical, or one you pick |
Family#
| Widget | What it shows | A tap opens |
|---|---|---|
| Everyone's next job | Each person's face, their next job and a box for each of today's jobs: filled when checked, dashed while waiting | That person's page |
| Who's on what | The front page's version: the lead, then one line per person | That person's page |
| Who's doing what | A tall portrait plate for each person, with their next job and points | That person's page |
| Chores | Everyone's open jobs today, by person | The chores sheet |
| Points | The top three | Points and rewards |
| Rewards | The shelf, and who is closest to what | Points and rewards |
| Closest to a reward | One line: who is a few points from which reward | |
| House Cup | The season's houses and their standings | |
| Allowances | The next allowance day and each child's amount (grown-ups add this one) | |
| Habits | Today's household habits and who has done them | |
| Focus | Who is focusing now, and for how long | |
| Who's home | The faces of who is around right now | |
| Ask Margin | A question box for Margin Intelligence (grown-ups add this one) | The answer |
Kitchen#
| Widget | What it shows | A tap opens |
|---|---|---|
| Today's meals | Breakfast, lunch and dinner with a drawing each, and who is cooking | The meals sheet |
| Today's table | Dinner as the headline, with breakfast and lunch below | The meals sheet |
| This week's meals | The week's dinners, a day per line | The meals sheet |
| Groceries | The first items with drawn circles, and how many in all | The list, to add and tick |
| The list, as a column | The same list, set like a classifieds column | The list |
| The list, as a line | The list along the foot of a page | The list |
| Kitchen timer | A big timer with 5, 10, 15 and 25 minutes, plus and minus a minute, start, pause and reset. It chimes at zero. Name it ("Pasta") in its settings |
The timer belongs to the screen it is on: it keeps running through a reload, and it does not appear on other screens.
Calendar#
| Widget | What it shows | A tap opens |
|---|---|---|
| This week | Seven days as a calendar leaf, a dot for each thing, birthdays circled | The calendar |
| Coming up | The next three things, set like listings | The calendar |
| Agenda | The next two weeks, by day | The calendar |
| Countdown | Days until a date you name, or the next birthday | |
| Reminders | Today's card reminders in this workspace |
Notes and boards#
| Widget | What it shows | A tap opens |
|---|---|---|
| Note | One household note you pick, its title and first lines. Notes in the Vault are never shown | |
| Sticky note | A paper note with your words on it, in handwriting | |
| Checklist | A checklist you pick, ticked right on the wall | |
| Board | A board you pick: its columns, how many cards each and the top ones | |
| Drawing | A whiteboard you pick, as a picture |
On the screen#
| Widget | What it shows | A tap opens |
|---|---|---|
| A web page | Any https page, live: a Home Assistant dashboard, a camera, the school's calendar (grown-ups add this one) | The page, full screen, with Back to Margin on top |
See Web pages on the wall for pages that refuse to be shown inside another one.
Through Margin Intelligence and other assistants#
Assistants can read and change everything the widgets show (chores, lists, meals, events, notes, checklists, boards, rewards) with the same tools as always. They can also list, save, rename, star and delete the household's wall templates and set the order of the household's people. Arranging a particular screen is done on that screen: an assistant can save a template, and a grown-up uses it on the screen in Edit wall, under Templates.