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Andy's Swiss Knife

A personal iOS Swiss-army app for todos, classes, dining, pomodoro, school events, and Canvas assignments.

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Andy's Swiss Knife, a brutalist iPhone dashboard for school, tasks, files, and daily life

One iPhone app for the school day.
Schedule, Canvas assignments, files, photos, focus sessions, and personal tools—organized around what matters now.

See today at a glance

Andy's Swiss Knife Today dashboard showing classes, tasks, and countdown cards

The customizable Today dashboard is the center of the app. It surfaces the next class, unfinished work, reminders, countdowns, weather, and other cards without making you open a stack of separate apps.

What is inside

  • School — class schedule, Canvas assignment sync, and school events.
  • Get things done — ordered to-dos, personal reminders, countdowns, calendar import, and a Pomodoro timer with a Live Activity.
  • Your stuff — file browsing and sharing, photo albums, and a blog editor.
  • On court — an experimental badminton view with camera-based player and shuttle analysis.
  • At a glance — Home Screen widgets for tasks, reminders, and the next class.

Tabs and dashboard cards are configurable, so the app can stay narrow even as the project grows.

Design

The interface uses a deliberately blunt visual system: zero-radius cards, heavy rules, uppercase mono labels, and six switchable themes.

STARK WHITE · CREAM · INK · ACID · HAZARD · TOXIC

Project map

Sources/
├── Models/        SwiftData models and cached remote data
├── Services/      sync, networking, timers, widgets, and integrations
├── Styles/        brutalist themes and shared UI primitives
└── Views/         dashboard plus feature tabs
Widgets/           Home Screen widgets and Live Activity

The app stores its local data with SwiftData. Remote school, site, and publishing features depend on their corresponding services and user configuration; the core dashboard and personal tools can still run without every integration enabled.

Status

This is a personal, school-specific iOS project. The seeded schedule and some defaults are tailored to UC Berkeley, and the badminton analysis is experimental. Expect to replace school endpoints or data sources when adapting it elsewhere.