The problem

My recovery data lived in one app, workouts in another, supplements in a note, and macros nowhere consistent. None of it was in one place at the time I actually needed it — first thing in the morning, deciding how hard to train that day. I built Life Dashboard as a single daily view instead.

What it does

The app opens on Today: last night's recovery score, HRV, resting heart rate, skin temperature and respiratory rate; the day's workouts with completion state; nutrition against goal macros; and a supplements checklist split morning/night. Four more tabs — Progress, Hobbies, Notes, Targets — carry the rest of the daily routine.

• Dark, low-glare surface designed for a 6am phone check before the room lights are on.
• A bottom tab bar and pull-to-refresh pattern, sized for one-handed use.
• Every tap target held to a 34px floor and every input font held to 16px, after early versions shipped controls too small to hit reliably and text fields that triggered iOS Safari's auto-zoom on focus.

Building it

I built the app and its design system together rather than styling screens ad hoc — the same tokens and components (surfaces, fields, segmented controls, skeleton loaders) are reused across all five tabs, extracted directly from the running app's stylesheet so the reference can't drift from what actually ships.

Outcome

I use it every morning to decide how to train that day and whether recovery numbers say to back off. It has replaced three separate apps and a running note.