welcome-dashboard

An alternative dashboard for Emacs. Includes recent projects, recent files and an todos in your most recent project.

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How it looks:

Configuration and installation

(use-package welcome-dashboard
  :ensure nil ;; when using local file and not straight nor use-package
  :config
  (setq welcome-dashboard-latitude 56.7365
        welcome-dashboard-longitude 16.2981     ;; latitude and longitude must be set to show weather information
        welcome-dashboard-use-nerd-icons t      ;; Use nerd icons instead of all-the-icons
        welcome-dashboard-path-max-length 75
        welcome-dashboard-show-file-path t      ;; Hide or show filepath
        welcome-dashboard-use-fahrenheit nil    ;; show in celcius or fahrenheit.
        welcome-dashboard-min-left-padding 10
        welcome-dashboard-image-file "~/path/yourimage.png"
        welcome-dashboard-image-width 200
        welcome-dashboard-image-height 169
        welcome-dashboard-max-number-of-todos 5
        welcome-dashboard-title (concat "Welcome " user-full-name))
  (welcome-dashboard-create-welcome-hook))

Straight users

  (use-package welcome-dashboard
    :straight (
    :host github
    :repo "konrad1977/welcome-dashboard"
    :files ("welcome-dashboard.el")
    :ensure t
    :after nerd-icons
    )
    :demand
    :init
    (setq welcome-dashboard-use-nerd-icons t
          welcome-dashboard-longitude 6.0440
          welcome-dashboard-latitude 53.0825
          welcome-dashboard-path-max-length 75
          welcome-dashboard-show-file-path t 
          welcome-dashboard-use-fahrenheit nil
          welcome-dashboard-min-left-padding 10
          welcome-dashboard-image-file "~/path/yourimage.png"
          welcome-dashboard-image-width 200
          welcome-dashboard-max-number-of-todos 5
          welcome-dashboard-image-height 169
          welcome-dashboard-title (concat "Welcome " user-full-name))
    :config
    (welcome-dashboard-create-welcome-hook))

Shortcuts

M-number opens project C-number opens recent files C-x number opens todo with current number