Dashboard
The home screen of OterApp — a single page that shows you what matters right now.
What you see
The dashboard aggregates data from every feature into cards and widgets:
- Next task — the most urgent or important task due
- Next habit — your next habit to check off
- Today’s tasks — a short list of what’s due or scheduled today
- Today’s habits — habits that are due right now
- Recent transactions — latest income and expense entries
- Overdue items — tasks and habits past their date that still need attention
- Weekly completion — a progress bar showing how many of today’s items you’ve completed
- Per-day chart — a bar chart of completions over the current week
Card status
Each domain card shows a status indicator:
- Good (green) — everything’s on track
- Medium (yellow) — some attention needed (e.g. a few overdue tasks)
- Bad (red) — action required (e.g. multiple overdue items or negative budget)
These heuristics are computed server-side based on your data.
Widget layout
Customise which widgets appear and in what order. Hide what you don’t use and rearrange the rest. On desktop you see more widgets in a grid layout; on mobile the same information is optimised for smaller screens.
Android home-screen widget
Android users can add an OterApp widget to their home screen showing today’s tasks and habits at a glance — no need to open the app.
Auto-refresh
The dashboard updates automatically whenever you complete a task, check off a habit, or add a transaction in any other feature. You never need to pull-to-refresh — the data stays current.
Tips
- Use it as your launch pad: Start every app session on the dashboard. It tells you what needs attention without navigating anywhere else.
- Customise aggressively: Turn off widgets for features you don’t use. A focused dashboard is more useful than a noisy one.
- The “next” items are smart: The next task and next habit are computed based on dates, priority, and overdue status — not just whatever’s first.
Our approach
Oter’s dashboard is the application of information dashboard design principles (Few, 2006) to life management. It eliminates cognitive switching costs by showing all domains on a single screen. The good/medium/bad status indicators use signal detection principles to guide attention, and the priority carousel reduces “what to focus on” to a single choice.