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Tidy for TRMNL

Last updated: July 2026

What this is

TRMNL is a battery-powered e-ink display that rotates through glanceable screens. The Tidy plugin puts your Tidy workspace on it: your day’s calendar, open tasks, inbox highlights, project status, and more — always on, at a glance, with no phone in your hand.

The plugin is read-only. Your display shows what Tidy already knows; nothing on the device can change, send, or delete anything in your workspace.

Screens you can show

  • Today: a one-screen dashboard — upcoming calendar, open tasks, and inbox highlights side by side. The default screen.
  • Daily Summary: the day’s activity summary Tidy writes for you.
  • Inbox Highlights: what matters from your email, without opening your email.
  • Calendar & Tasks: a focused agenda view of upcoming events and open tasks.
  • Project Status: a single project’s highlights and recent movement. Pick the project when you configure the screen.
  • Analytics: a few numbers that describe your week, with 7-day trends.
  • Meeting Brief: who you’re meeting and the context you need, appearing shortly before the meeting — and stepping out of the rotation when nothing is coming up.

Install

  1. Find Tidy in the TRMNL plugin directory and choose Install.
  2. Your browser opens Tidy. Sign in, or create an account right there.
  3. Choose the workspace to connect and what to share — calendar, email, tasks & projects, summaries. You choose per category.
  4. Choose Allow. You’re sent back to TRMNL and the plugin is live.
  5. Add the screen to a playlist. On the next refresh your display shows the Today screen.

Configure and manage

  • Open the plugin’s settings in TRMNL to switch which screen an instance shows, or to pick the project for a Project Status screen.
  • Want several screens in your rotation? Add more instances of the plugin — each one can show a different screen.
  • For the Meeting Brief, mark the playlist item as Important so it can step forward when a meeting is near.

Privacy

  • Only the categories you approved are ever shown. Screens for anything you didn’t share display a “not shared” note instead.
  • The connection is visible in Tidy under Settings → Connected Apps, and you can revoke it there at any time. Revoking stops the display immediately.
  • Uninstalling the plugin from TRMNL disconnects it on our side too.

Questions

We’re happy to help: support@tidy.engineering.