liveboard

Put anything on a screen, and let it keep itself up to date.

A spare monitor, a wall-mounted tablet, the second screen nobody uses — liveboard turns it into a board you compose yourself. Cards carry the things you would otherwise go and check: the weather, a page, a number, a note to whoever walks past.

The cards

Pick one to see what it does.

Board 1
basic
General purpose cards.
calc
Working calculators, several of them for people living in Japan.
data
Cards a scheduled crawl fills in.
Weatherbasic

Current conditions and the forecast for a location you set, refreshed on its own.

Weather
Drag it anywhere on the board · resize it · edit its settings · duplicate it

How a board behaves

Arrange it once

Drag cards where you want them and pull them to the size they need — they float up to close the gaps. Hold Command while dragging to put one down exactly where you let go, and it stays there through everything else moving. The layout is the point — a board is read from across a room, not scrolled.

Keep several boards

One for the morning, one for the numbers, one for the thing you are watching this week. Switch between them, or leave one up for good.

Edit any card directly

Every card's settings are open to you. Change them in place, duplicate a card you have already tuned, or reset one that got away from you.

Take the layout with you

Export a board and import it on another screen, or sign in and keep it on the server so the same board comes up wherever you open it.

Save a card as an image

Export any card as a high-resolution PNG with its current contents intact — useful for sharing the one result without sending the whole board.

Ask for a card's contents

Connect a Simple AI account and a card can be written by a model — a note, a flow chart, or a whole small widget that runs in a card of its own. Cmd+Z puts back what a rewrite replaced, so nothing a model writes is one-way.

Send a place between cards

Drag an address out of one card and onto another. A place picked once in a trip sets the clock's time zone and the weather's forecast without being typed again.

In your language

The whole board runs in English, 日本語 or 中文, and cards carry their own titles in each.

The cards are not fixed

liveboard ships with none of its own cards. They arrive in packs, and a pack is a repository — point a board at one and its cards show up in the menu. basic and calc are published in the open; data is this board's own, its cards filled by a crawl that runs on a schedule. A board that needs a card nobody has written yet carries a pack of its own, loaded exactly the same way.