When I built workdash, its goal and vision wasn't immediately clear to all people. So I thought it could be interesting for people that's don't immediately see it to read the principles and frustrations that made workdash what it is.
On my daily life I maintain and contribute to multiple opensource projects and work repositories, which means I constantly juggle git repos, issue trackers, CI, reviews, terminals, coding agents, logs, and random operational tasks.
In the past I tried to keep up with all of this in many different ways: Emails, GitHub Notifications, Aggregators, the classic “I’ll just ignore everything, if it’s really important someone will ping me” mantra and even more odd automation I won’t share here because would only make your life worse and not better (no, really, don’t try to delegate your life organization to an agent).
None of those worked really for me, because most developer dashboards try to solve this by replacing your workflow with their workflow.
Your editor becomes secondary. Your terminal disappears. Git becomes a button inside somebody else’s UI. Eventually the dashboard becomes the place where everything must to happen.
The question I found asking myself most frequently was "why can't I just open a shell here?"
This is more or less the story of how that question lead me to create "one more tool" and how maybe someone else will find it useful too.