#Dashboards

When a task has many moving parts, Arachne gathers the views that matter into one panel you can read at a glance.

#Overview

A dashboard is one of the eight ways Arachne presents what it produces. It gathers several related views — tables, charts, and short summaries — into a single at-a-glance panel, so you can take in the whole picture without opening each piece separately.

You use a dashboard when no single view tells the whole story. A topic with several dimensions, a status you want to monitor, or a set of related figures that belong together — these read best when they sit side by side in one place. Arachne chooses the dashboard format automatically when the work calls for it, and you can ask for it by name.

#What you can see

A dashboard brings related views together into one panel:

  • Several views at once: tables, charts, and short readouts placed together so you can scan them in a single glance.
  • The whole picture: the parts that matter to your goal, gathered rather than scattered across separate results.
  • A status you can return to: a panel you can reopen later to check where things stand.
  • A starting point you can drill into: each view stands on its own, so you can follow any part deeper when you need detail.

A dashboard is saved as an artifact, so you can find it again, reopen it, reuse it, and export or download it.

#How to use it

  1. Describe the outcome you want and the things you care about — the figures, the comparisons, the status that should be visible together.
  2. Let Arachne do the work; it gathers the information and presents it in whichever format fits best.
  3. When the work has several related parts, Arachne assembles them into a dashboard automatically.
  4. To steer the format, ask for a dashboard directly, or ask Arachne to break a single view out so you can look at it on its own.
  5. Reopen the dashboard from your artifacts whenever you want to check on it again.
Tip

When you want everything in one view, say so in plain language — for example, "show me this as a dashboard." Arachne will gather the related views into a single panel.

#Examples

What you ask:

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Pull together a panel on how my project is doing this week — open tasks, what's done, and a chart of progress over time.

What you see: A dashboard panel that gathers a table of open and completed tasks alongside a progress chart, all in one at-a-glance view you can reopen later.

What you ask:

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Research the top options in this space and show me the key numbers and a comparison together in one place.

What you see: A dashboard combining a comparison of the options with the headline figures and a chart, so you can read the landscape without switching between separate results.

#Tips

  • Name the things you want visible together. The clearer you are about which figures and comparisons matter, the more focused the dashboard.
  • If a single view in the dashboard deserves a closer look, ask Arachne to bring it out on its own as a table or chart.
  • A dashboard is a living artifact — reopen it later to check on a status rather than asking for a fresh result each time.
  • If the result arrives in another format and you want it gathered into one panel, just ask for a dashboard.