Always on eInk display (kindle?) + react website

2 points by bernatfortet 5 years ago · 2 comments · 2 min read

Dad, husband, designer, dev, and productivity nerd here. I bet someone in the HN community has figured this out.

THE GOAL: A system of tasks that is slightly smart to help with my family chores.

THE MPV: Post its around the house that are rewritten daily or weekly. Is great, but is high friction, ideally the v1 hooks up to our digitals tools.

V1 IDEAS:

1. mounted eink display. Mounted to the wall. Maybe we charge once in a while or permanently plugged. Locations: - Bathroom: hooks to calendar events in the morning, plus task list. At night tasks to do before bed. - Kitchen: food plan for the day - Hallway: departure checklist

2. Always on? ideally the content is always visible, b/c of eink it doesn't blast your eyes or attracts the attention of a toddler. Less good but ok, you have to unlock to show the website.

3. What's on the display: it just uses a browser (eg. Kindle's experimental browser) to show a url. The content should always be up to date.

4. React? Ideally I can hack with react b/c it's fast, simple and I'm experienced.

5. Ideally it's an interactive display. Apart from consuming info, being able to press button and take actions would be awesome.

What I've learnt so far: - I've tried Nicholas Jitkoff's hack for older kindles: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1efF6TXezl_2qaeZ6pHMScXSmOJ4cs2WRLA-s90eySSA/preview But the described steps no longer work with latest version of jailbroken kindles - looked into other eink displays but nothing looks very promising.

Thanks for reading so far! Any thought/comment will be deeply appreciated.