I built a floral weekly planner that doubles as a desktop wallpaper
I wanted a weekly planner I would actually open, so I built Rose and Ribbon: five weekday cards with appointments and a daily focus, saved locally and shared as a Lively desktop wallpaper. It now has reusable default plans per weekday with a per-day default or custom switch, and gently animated botanicals.
What made it work
Told it the feeling I wanted first - a planner that feels like a botanical wallpaper - before asking for features, then used several different clients to review and write editing prompts.
The screens
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How it was madeThe prompt, tools, time, what’s left to make it real, links.
What’s left to make it real
Needs a real calendar integration (Google or Outlook) instead of manual entry, plus import/export and backup for planner-data.json. The weekend toggle and theme choices are still on the list. The server is Windows and PowerShell only and assumes Lively Wallpaper is installed. There are no automated tests.
- Made with
- Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, PowerShell, Lively Wallpaper
- Took
- Too many hours, but fun learning :)
- How
- Claude and ChatGPT for the design and PRD, GitHub Copilot for implementation, served by a small PowerShell local API that syncs the same schedule to the Lively desktop wallpaper.
- The prompt
- Build a personal weekly planner that feels like a botanical wallpaper: five weekday cards (Monday to Friday), appointments with time and category, a daily focus, saved locally in planner-data.json, and the same selected week shared with a Lively desktop wallpaper.In Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, PowerShell, Lively WallpaperModel Claude (Anthropic)Took Too many hours, but fun learning :)
- Hard parts
- Making sure the Lively Wallpaper app actually updated the data as it would in a browser. Understanding how to write prompts (and not write them). This is my first time, I have learned a lot. It is really hard not being a perfectionist.
- Try it
- Read the code
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Annie Josefin Forsberg@ajofbuilder
If you have built a desktop wallpaper app, did you find a way to make separate pages for web browser and wallpaper?
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