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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.

                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                            
                                                                         
                                                                                  
                                                                                 
                                                                           
                                                                                
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                    good morning                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
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                                                 Thursday · 11 June 2026                                                
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        

home_daily

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

                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                 If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.                                 
                                                       Bill Gates                                                      
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                               
                                                                                                               
                                                                                                               
                                                                                                       
                                      Thursday  ·  11 June 2026  ·  day 162 of 2026                                     
                                                                                                                        
                           this month      sky                           
                                      June 2026              moon        🌓  First Quarter                               
                                 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa        season      Summer                                         
                                     1  2  3  4  5  6        zodiac        Gemini                                      
                                  7  8  9 10 11 12 13        chinese     🐎  Horse                                       
                                 14 15 16 17 18 19 20        iso week    2026-W24                                       
                                 21 22 23 24 25 26 27        day of year 162 of 365                                     
                                 28 29 30                                                                               
                                                                                                                        
                           world clock      system                           
                         UTC    11:38                        os     Linux (Ubuntu 24.04)                                
                         LA     04:38                        host   runnervm3jyl0                                       
                         NYC    07:38                        uptime 2m                                                  
                         London 12:38                        load   0.89                                                
                         Tokyo  20:38                        cpu    16%                                                 
                         Sydney 21:38                        memory 8%                                                  
                                                                                                                        
                           time elapsed                           
                         year :  44%                          
                         qtr  :  79%                          
                         month:  35%                          
                         week :  50%                          
                         day  :  48%                          
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        

home_github

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

                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                         Yuji Ueki                                                                      
                                    Terminal splash renderer maintainer                                            
                           Tokyo, Japan · member since 2013                                               
                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                
                                                                                                              
                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                        
                           contributions · last ~8 months                           
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                     
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                           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                         
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                           notifications                           
                         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.

                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                    good morning                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                             Thursday · 11 June 2026 · 11:38                                            
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                           If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.  Bill Gates                          
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        

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.

                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                            
                                                                                                         
                                                                                                         
                                                                                              
                                                                                                                        
                                                    good morning                                                        
                                                    Thursday · 11:38                                                    
                                      🌓  First Quarter  ·      Gemini   ·  day 162                                     
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
            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          
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                    A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure                    
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        

project_splash

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

                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                      
                                         
                                          
                                            
                                                
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                unhappychoice/splashboard                                               
                                                terminal splash renderer                                                
                                                           ISC                                                          
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        

project_github

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

                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
                                                
                                      
                                         
                                          
                                            
                                                
                                                                                                                        
                                                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   
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
     Files by dir                                                       Largest files     
   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   
                                                          2y 3m                                                         
                                             12,345 lines across 6 languages                                            
                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                        
     Most churned      TODO comments      TODO hotspots     
   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