Why this page exists.
Your Family Dashboard is a living artifact. You built it in the dashboard build. Every Phase 4 build adds a block. Phase 5 personalizes it. The Going Deeper bonus optionally deploys a view-only version to Netlify for your family. A lot of moving pieces — and none of the individual lesson pages is the right place to scan when the artifact breaks at 9pm on a Tuesday.
This is that page. The Blueprint template so you can re-download it. The master library of update prompts, one for every block. Troubleshooting for the five most common dashboard problems. The Netlify export-and-deploy cycle. One page, always open in a tab, never needs to be re-learned.
If something is broken right now, skip to Section 4.
Jump to troubleshooting. Five common issues, five fast fixes. Come back to the other sections when your dashboard is behaving.
1. The two-deploy pattern — the mental model.
Your LIVE dashboard
Where: Cowork sidebar on your computer.
What: Pulls fresh from Gmail, Calendar, Projects every time you open it.
Who: Only you, only when Cowork is running.
Cost: Already paid for with Pro.
Your daily driver.
Your SHARED dashboard
Where: A URL on Netlify.
What: A frozen snapshot from the moment you deployed it.
Who: Anyone with the URL.
Cost: Free tier.
Family's read-only view. Re-deploy weekly.
What NOT to do
Don't try to make the Netlify version "live" by giving it your credentials.
Don't deploy a dashboard that has sensitive info you don't want family members seeing — generate a SHARE-VERSION artifact instead (see Section 4).
Don't lose sleep over this. You probably won't deploy at all — the Cowork version on its own does most of what you need.
2. The Dashboard Blueprint — the file that teaches Claude your style.
You built this in the dashboard build screen 4 via a 9-question interview. Here's the blank template — useful if you want to re-run the interview, or just fill it in by hand. Save as a Google Doc called Dashboard Blueprint, upload to your Family Dashboard Project's Files panel.
FAMILY DASHBOARD BLUEPRINT — blank template
FAMILY DASHBOARD BLUEPRINT
Version 1 · Created [DATE]
Household: [Names, ages, school or job context. One line per person.]
Morning rhythm: [What time do I usually open this dashboard, and what's the first thing I need to see?]
Visual feel: [Warm / minimal / playful / professional / cozy — pick one or two words.]
Colors: [Two colors that feel like home. Specific hex codes or vibes: "sage green and cream," "navy and terracotta."]
Top four blocks, ranked: [1. Today's events / 2. Top priorities / 3. This week's meals / 4. Family info. Or reorder for your life — kid zones / home ops / money glance / brain dump / big week.]
Density: [A lot — show everything / Medium — top 3 of each / Minimal — today and priorities only.]
Tone: [For greetings, nudges — warm and personal / neutral and clean / briefly funny / minimal.]
Excluded: [Things I explicitly don't want shown. No emojis, no motivational quotes, no weather, nothing from a specific person or email thread, etc.]
Custom blocks: [Anything I want that isn't on the standard course list. One-sentence description.]
Prefer to re-run the guided interview?
The full interview prompt lives in lesson the dashboard build screen 4. Same 9 questions, asked one at a time by Claude, produces a clean Blueprint you can paste into a Google Doc. Takes about 10 minutes.
3. The update-prompt library — one prompt per block.
Every one of these belongs in a new chat inside your Family Dashboard Project (so your Blueprint and custom instructions are loaded). Copy, fill in the brackets, paste, send. Claude updates the existing artifact — no new one.
Block 1 — Greeting Strip (from the dashboard build, customize in the closing lesson)
Update my Family Dashboard artifact. On the Greeting Strip: change the greeting word to "[Hey / Hi friend / Morning / whatever]," keep my first name, and show today's day and date. Don't modify other blocks.
Block 2 — Today View (calendar block, from the dashboard build)
Update my Family Dashboard artifact. On the Today View block: pull the next 6 events from my connected Google Calendar for today only. Show time and title. Collapse events I'm not attending (note only that something's happening). Include a "see full week" link that expands inline.
Apple Calendar mom?
This block reads from Google Calendar — that's the only calendar Cowork's connector supports today. If you live in iCloud, the Apple Calendar Bridge bonus page walks you through publishing your iCloud calendar so Google can subscribe to it. One-time setup, then this block lights up with your iPhone events.
Block 3 — Top 3 Priorities (Phase 2 Inbox Command Center pattern)
Update my Family Dashboard artifact. On the Top Priorities block: pull my top 3 priorities from my Inbox Command Center Project's Open Loops file. Show each as a row with a checkbox. If a priority has a date, show it. Clicking a checkbox strikes through the row and moves it to a "completed today" subsection visible for 24h.
Block 4 — This Week's Meals (Phase 2 meal planning, reads the current-week-meals artifact in linked Family Manager)
Update my Family Dashboard artifact. On the This Week's Meals block: pull from the current-week-meals artifact saved in my linked Family Manager Project (per the Pro-bonus prompt from the weekly meal plan). Show Monday–Sunday as 7 day cards. Dinner only, with the one-line description visible. Each card clickable — clicking opens the full recipe in an inline panel. Add two buttons at the block's bottom: "Print grocery list" (opens the printable view of the current-week-meals artifact) and "Regenerate ideas" (opens a new chat in Family Manager pre-filled with the weekly-plan prompt from the weekly meal plan, including the artifact-save addendum).
Block 5 — Family Info Hub (Phase 2 Family Manager-driven)
Update my Family Dashboard artifact. On the Family Info Hub block: one card per person in my household, pulled from my Blueprint and Family Factsheet. Each card shows: name, age/role, school or job, one or two quick facts (dietary needs, key medical note if family-appropriate). Clean visual layout — no full profiles, just glanceable cards.
Block 6 — Kid Zones (Kid Life-driven)
Update my Family Dashboard artifact. Populate the Kid Zones block — one card per kid pulled from my Kid Life Project's Kid Profiles file. Each kid's card shows: name and age, today's chores (with checkboxes), any upcoming kid-specific events this week, a small "homework helper" button that opens a pre-filled prompt at their grade level. Skip any kid who doesn't have a profile yet.
Block 7 — Home Ops Glance (Home Operations-driven)
Update my Family Dashboard artifact. Populate the Home Ops Glance block: show warranty expirations in the next 90 days (from Home Operations Project), pending paperwork deadlines, "Sunday Reset: last run [date]" status, and up to 3 overdue items. Keep it compact — this block should take less visual weight than the Today or Meals blocks.
Block 8 — Monthly Money Glance (Money Command Center-driven, opt-in hidden)
Update my Family Dashboard artifact. Populate the Monthly Money Glance block WITH HIDDEN-BY-DEFAULT behavior: the block shows only a header reading "Money Glance — click to reveal" with a small lock icon. Clicking reveals bills due in next 14 days (from Money Command Center), monthly scan status ("last scan: X days ago — [overdue / on track]"), and any subscription-creep flags. Clicking again re-hides it. Never show the money data on the default render. I don't want numbers visible to anyone looking over my shoulder.
Block 9 — Active Big Week Panel (big-weeks, conditional)
Update my Family Dashboard artifact. Populate the Active Big Week Panel with show/hide logic: only appear when I have an active temporary Project (one with "DONE" NOT in its name). When one is active, show the temporary Project's name, days-remaining countdown, and the top-3 next actions from the Project's current plan. When no temporary Project is active, the block hides entirely — don't show an empty state, don't leave a gap, just flow the layout around it.
Bonus — "add a custom block I made up"
Update my Family Dashboard artifact. Add a new block called "[YOUR BLOCK NAME]" in [position — e.g., "between Today View and Meals"]. The block should: [describe what it shows and where the data comes from — a specific file in a Project, a scheduled task output, whatever]. Match the visual style of existing blocks. Make it the same width as [reference block]. Don't disturb any other blocks.
Bonus — "revert a change I hate"
Revert the last change you made to my Family Dashboard artifact. If there were multiple changes, revert [specific thing — e.g., "the Greeting color change," "the Today View layout shift"]. Leave other changes in place.
4. Troubleshooting — five common problems, five fast fixes.
Save this section. If none of these fixes work, the fallback at the bottom resets the artifact cleanly.
1
The artifact won't build / Claude is just chatting instead
Cause: Cowork is off, or the Blueprint isn't uploaded, or Claude thinks you want an inline canvas instead of a persistent artifact.
Fix: Make sure you're in Cowork mode (Cowork tab at the top of the desktop app). Check Blueprint is in the Files panel. Add this line to your prompt: "Build this as a persistent artifact in the Cowork sidebar using the create_artifact tool, not as an inline canvas or chat response."
2
The Today View or Calendar block shows no events
Cause: Gmail or Google Calendar connector needs re-authorization (this happens every few months).
Fix: Claude → Settings → Connectors → Google Calendar → click Reauthorize. 30 seconds. Come back and reload the artifact (close it, re-open from the Artifacts tab).
On Apple Calendar? If your block has never shown events, you likely need the iCloud → Google bridge — see the Apple Calendar Bridge bonus page.
3
A block looks broken — text overflowing, layout weird
Cause: Claude updated the block but didn't preserve CSS. Common after a major iteration round.
Fix: Paste: "The [BLOCK NAME] block on my Family Dashboard has broken layout — text overflowing / spacing off / cards misaligned. Fix just that block, match the style of the other blocks. Don't touch anything else."
4
Claude made a new artifact instead of updating the old one
Cause: You prompted with "create" or didn't anchor the prompt to the existing artifact.
Fix: Delete the new one (right-click in Artifacts tab → Delete). Re-prompt with "update my existing Family Dashboard artifact — don't create a new one."
5
Everything is wrong and I just want to start over
Cause: A cascade of updates drifted the dashboard away from what you want.
Fix: Go back to the dashboard build screen 5. Re-run the master skeleton build prompt. Claude will rebuild from scratch. Your Blueprint (if current) will keep the style consistent. Takes 90 seconds. Not a failure — this is what the skeleton prompt is for.
If the artifact is gone entirely — don't panic.
Artifacts don't delete themselves. Check the Artifacts tab again — it may have been renamed or filed under a Project you weren't looking in. If it's truly gone, the Blueprint + skeleton prompt rebuilds it in 90 seconds with everything your Projects know. You didn't lose anything important.
5. Netlify export-and-deploy — the weekly refresh cycle.
If you deployed via the Going Deeper bonus, this is your re-deploy cheatsheet. Once a week. Sunday evenings after your Sunday Assembly is a natural slot.
- Open your live dashboard in Cowork. Wait 10 seconds for fresh data to pull.
- Export the artifact. Right-click or three-dot menu → Export as HTML. Save to Desktop as
family-dashboard.html (overwrite last week's version).
- Open your Netlify site's deploy page. Log in → your site → Deploys tab.
- Drag the new HTML file onto the deploy zone. Netlify replaces the old version. Same URL.
- Reload your phone browser bookmark to confirm the new version is live. Done.
Generate a SHARE-VERSION (redacted) before exporting — paste in Family Dashboard Project
Create a SHARE-VERSION artifact of my Family Dashboard — a parallel artifact I can export for the Netlify family view.
Remove these from the share version: [list anything you don't want family seeing — specific kids' school names, medical notes, exact address, Money Glance block entirely, anything sensitive]. Keep everything else.
Call the new artifact "Family Dashboard — Share Version." Don't modify the original Family Dashboard artifact. I'll export the Share Version for Netlify and keep the full version as my personal live view.
Pro bonus — Cowork scheduled task for the weekly reminder.
Add to Scheduled Tasks (the scheduled-tasks half): "Sunday 8pm weekly: remind me to re-deploy the family dashboard. Show me my Netlify URL and the export steps. Don't re-deploy automatically — I want to eyeball what's going out before the family sees it."
6. Scheduled-task bonuses specifically for the dashboard.
Pro-only. These are the scheduled tasks that pair best with the dashboard. Add any or all to your Cowork Scheduled Tasks.
Morning summary — 7:00am weekdays
Weekday 7:00am: Open my Family Dashboard artifact and summarize what's different from yesterday. Any new urgent emails? New calendar events? Top priority status? Anything on my Today View that needs attention? Keep it to 4 bullets. Don't modify the dashboard — just tell me.
Weekly Sunday refresh — 8:00pm Sundays
Sunday 8:00pm weekly: refresh my Family Dashboard. Pull next week's calendar events, regenerate the meal plan if the current-week-meals artifact in Family Manager is due for one, update the Priorities block from Inbox Command Center, refresh Home Ops Glance. If I have a Netlify share deployed, remind me to re-export and re-deploy (don't do it automatically).
Quarterly Blueprint refresh reminder — first Saturday of quarter, 9am
First Saturday of January, April, July, October, 9:00am: remind me to refresh my Dashboard Blueprint using the prompt in the project-tune-up bonus. Notification only — don't rewrite the Blueprint yourself.
Keep this page open in a tab.
You'll come back to it. Every time you add a block, every time something breaks, every Sunday if you're doing the Netlify refresh cycle. It's the dashboard's always-on reference. Pair it with the Quick Reference (for general prompts) and the Project Tune-Up (for quarterly maintenance) and you have a complete operating manual for the whole system.
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