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Command Desk — a personal dashboard built around my own workflow

A self-built productivity dashboard that replaced a graveyard of generic tools — Asana, Trello, Google Sheets, Notion, Miro. I fed my own Google Sheets data (TOEFL prep, driving theory, daily tasks) into Lovable and vibe-coded a workspace shaped entirely around how my mind works, going from idea to working tool in a few hours without touching code.

What I did

  • Problem framing from lived experience: years of fighting productivity tools — paywalls (Asana), clutter (Trello), lifeless spreadsheets (Google Sheets), and organisational overhead (Notion, Miro) where maintaining the board replaced doing the work.
  • Personal data as the spec: instead of squeezing my workflow into a generic SaaS template, I used my real Google Sheets data — TOEFL prep, driving theory, daily tasks — as the requirements for a customised dashboard.
  • Vibe coding as a method: built the entire tool with Lovable in a few hours, no manual coding — a deliberate experiment in where AI-assisted building genuinely changes the game (personal micro-apps) versus where it doesn't (complex software).
  • Researcher's lens on self-design: treating my own daily routine as a research subject — identifying a specific, recurring friction and closing the gap between idea and working tool as a 0-to-1 exercise.

Inside the product

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Command Desk today view: English practice sessions, hands-on tasks table and driving theory plan
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The TOEFL prep plan broken into structured daily sessions
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The log view tracking daily progress across plans
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