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Our kitchen whiteboard is now a family display that updates itself

Josh Kahn replaced his family's kitchen whiteboard with a TRMNL e-ink display that shows the family Apple calendar, a dinner menu calendar, and the weather. GPT helped him build and refine the custom Liquid templates behind the plugins, and the display now stays up to date on its own.

How it works

  1. Adds the family Apple calendar to a TRMNL display in minutes
  2. GPT helps assemble and iterate on Liquid templates for a private calendar plugin
  3. Adds a Dinner Menu calendar plugin and a morning view with the day's schedule, dinner, and weather
  4. The display replaces the whiteboard in the kitchen

Why it’s worth knowing

GPT wrote and refined the custom templates with him, so a family calendar, a dinner menu, and the weather now sit on one e-ink screen that never needs wiping clean.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on blog.iamjkahn.com. See the original ↗

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