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Presets

The curated home / project templates that ship with the binary. Pick one with splashboard install --template <name>. Per-widget breakdowns live on the Presets guide.

The descriptions below are pulled straight from the install picker's metadata, so they can never drift from what splashboard install --template actually shows you.

home_splash

Terminal name as a giant figlet hero with a postfx reveal, plus ambient weather / moon / year-progress.

                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
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home_daily

Large time-of-day hero; weather / sunrise / moon on the left and year/month/week/day gauges on the right.

                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                        Action without thought is mindless. Thought without action is fruitless.                        
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                         ──────────  this month  ──────────  ─────────────  sky  ──────────────                         
                                    October 2026             moon        🌖  Waning Gibbous                              
                                 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa        season      Autumn                                         
                                              1  2  3        zodiac      ♎  Libra                                       
                                  4  5  6  7  8  9 10        chinese     🐎  Horse                                       
                                 11 12 13 14 15 16 17        iso week    2026-W42                                       
                                 18 19 20 21 22 23 24        day of year 291 of 365                                     
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                         UTC    14:14                        os     Linux (Ubuntu 24.04)                                
                         LA     07:14                        host   runnervm8k3b6                                       
                         NYC    10:14                        uptime 1m                                                  
                         London 15:14                        load   1.55                                                
                         Tokyo  23:14                        cpu    40%                                                 
                         Sydney 01:14                        memory 9%                                                  
                                                                                                                        
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                         week : ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░ 94%                          
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home_github

Avatar + handle + contribution heatmap, plus open PRs / review queue and recent activity timeline.

                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
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                         ────────────  my PRs  ────────────  ─────────  review queue  ─────────                         
                         unhappychoice/splashboard#54 feat(  ratatui/ratatui#1234 feat: add pie                         
                         unhappychoice/splashboard#51 feat(  tokio-rs/tokio#5678 fix: race in s                         
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
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                         splashboard review_requested: feat: heatmap                                                    
                         ratatui mention: rfc: themes                                                                   
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        

home_minimal

Quiet three-line preset: a time-of-day greeting, one-line date, and the daily quote — no figlet, lots of whitespace.

                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
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home_feed

Morning briefing: time-of-day figlet, Hacker News top stories, on-this-day + sky panel, and today's Wikipedia featured article as the read-more lift.

                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
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                                     🌖  Waning Gibbous  ·    ♎  Libra    ·  day 291                                     
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
          ─────────────────  HACKER NEWS  ─────────────────  ────────────────  R/PROGRAMMING  ────────────────          
          234pt 56c  Show HN: I built a thing                r/programming · 1520↑ 218c  Show: terminal dashbo          
          187pt 41c  Why X over Y                            r/rust · 934↑ 104c  Why async Rust feels differen          
          152pt 88c  Ask HN: how do you ...                                                                             
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
          ────────────────────  WIRED  ────────────────────  ──────────────────  BBC TECH  ───────────────────          
          Apr 26  Why X over Y                               Apr 26  Why X over Y                                       
          Apr 24  Release notes 0.42                         Apr 24  Release notes 0.42                                 
          Apr 22  A short note                               Apr 22  A short note                                       
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
          ──────────────────  ENGADGET  ───────────────────  ─────────────────  ON THIS DAY  ─────────────────          
          Apr 26  Why X over Y                               1969 — Apollo 11 lands on the Moon                         
          Apr 24  Release notes 0.42                         1492 — Columbus departs Palos de la Frontera               
          Apr 22  A short note                               1989 — Tim Berners-Lee proposes the World Wide We          
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
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                                        fingers crossed, eyes closed, no tests —                                        
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project_splash

Repo name as a giant figlet hero with a postfx reveal, slug / description / license underneath — nothing else. For repo-shipped configs.

                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
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                                                unhappychoice/splashboard                                               
                                                terminal splash renderer                                                
                                                           ISC                                                          
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        

project_github

Dynamic repo hero + subtitle; branch state, commit / CI sparklines, open PRs, and recent releases.

                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
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                                                unhappychoice/splashboard                                               
                                                terminal splash renderer                                                
                                                           ISC                                                          
                                  stars: 142 · forks: 9 · watchers: 12 · open_issues: 7                                 
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                         ──────────  languages  ───────────  ───────────  released  ───────────                         
                         Rust  87000███████████████████████  v0.3.0  2026-04-10                                         
                         TOML  8000                          v0.2.1  2026-03-05                                         
                         Shell 5000                                                                                     
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                         ─────────────  PRs  ──────────────  ────────────  issues  ────────────                         
                         #54 feat(docs): generate widget ca  #41 meta: widget catalog & roadmap                         
                         #51 feat(fetcher): split clock opt  #17 theme system                                           
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
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project_minimal

Quiet preset: repo name, latest tag, and the last three commits. Fully offline (no GitHub calls) — acknowledges the repo without taking over the screen.

                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                       splashboard                                                      
                                                         v1.2.3                                                         
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                           ● a1b2c3d feat(render): add heatmap                                          
                                           ● d4e5f6a fix(fetcher): tz fallback                                          
                                              ● e7f8a9b chore: bump ratatui                                             
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        

project_codebase

Repo analytics dashboard: project-name figlet at the centre flanked by files-by-dir and largest-files rankings, with LOC / age / comment-density tiles above and churn / TODO list / TODO hotspots below. Local-only — no network or auth.

                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
   ──────────  Lines of code  ──────────  ──────────  Project age  ───────────  ─────────  Comment density  ─────────   
   1. Rust                          8234  years                              2  1. Rust                          1900   
   2. TypeScript                    2111  months                             3  2. Markdown                       580   
   3. Markdown                       820  days                              12  3. TypeScript                     230   
   4. TOML                           560  first_commit_date         2024-01-15  4. TOML                            32   
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
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   1. src                   180       ▟▀▀ ▜▞▜▖ █  ▝▀▙ ▟▀▀ ▐▙▜▖▐▙▄ ▟▀▙ ▝▀▙ ▜▟▜▖▗▄█         1. src/render/mod.rs   1234   
   2. tests                  42       ▝▀▙ ▐▙▟▘ █  ▟▀█ ▝▀▙ ▐▌▐▌▐▌▐▌█ █ ▟▀█ ▐▌▝▘█ █         2. src/fetcher/git/m…   812   
   3. docs                   18       ▀▀▘ ▟▙  ▝▀▘ ▝▀▝▘▀▀▘ ▀▘▝▘▀▝▀ ▝▀▘ ▝▀▝▘▀▀  ▝▀▝▘        3. src/payload.rs       640   
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                                             12,345 lines across 6 languages                                            
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
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   1. src/main.rs            42  · src/render/mod.rs:120: TODO: handle empty body         1. src/render/mod.rs      5   
   2. src/lib.rs             31  · src/fetcher/git.rs:88: FIXME: don't panic on detached  2. src/fetcher/git.rs     3   
   3. src/render/mod.rs      18  · src/main.rs:14: TODO: load config from $HOME           3. src/main.rs            2   
   4. src/fetcher/mod.rs     12