Show HN: Edi Life OS – self-hosted life dashboard with an MCP server for AI

Edi Life OS, a self-hosted life dashboard from developer Edris Ranjbar, ships with an optional MCP server exposing 26 tools across its dashboard, goals, tasks, habits, finances and notes so AI assistants such as Claude Desktop and Claude Code can read and update the data. The PHP and MySQL application bundles ten workspaces — Overview, Growth, Focus, Finance, Habittify, Kanban, Calendar, Goals, Notepad and Notes — and runs on shared hosting or via Docker Compose, with the MCP server reaching the app only through its token-protected HTTP API rather than the database or credentials.

One self-hosted home for your focus, habits, goals, money and projects — with an MCP server so your AI assistant can work alongside you. Quick start quick-start · Tour a-quick-tour · AI / MCP talk-to-your-life-os-with-ai · Deploy https://github.com/edrisranjbar/lifeos/blob/main/docs/deployment.md · API https://github.com/edrisranjbar/lifeos/blob/main/docs/api.md Most of us run our lives across a to-do app, a habit tracker, a budgeting spreadsheet, a Pomodoro timer and a notes app — and none of them know about each other. Edi Life OS puts all of it in one calm, private dashboard and connects the small things you do today to the direction you want your life to take. - Everything in one place. Ten workspaces share one design, one sign-in and one database. - Connected, not just collected. Habits drive goal progress, Kanban cards show up in the calendar, and the Overview turns it all into one daily score. - Yours. Runs on any PHP + MySQL host, even cheap shared hosting. No subscription, no tracking, no vendor lock-in. - AI-ready. A built-in MCP server lets Claude and other assistants read your dashboard, plan goals, log habits and track expenses for you. | Growth — Six life dimensions, each linked to long-term goals, SMART goals, habits and tasks. Guided weekly, monthly and quarterly reviews. | Focus — Pomodoro sessions with breaks, a built-in focus soundtrack and a landscape that follows the time of day. | | Habittify — Small daily habits, streaks and a seven-day picture of your consistency. | Kanban — Boards with labels, priorities, due dates, checklists, comments and attachments. | All ten workspaces | Workspace | What you can do | |---|---| | Overview | A live productivity score, focus and habit trends, goals, finances and a seven-day weather forecast. | | Growth | Connect six life dimensions to long-term goals, SMART goals, habits and tasks. Run weekly, monthly or quarterly reviews. Guide https://github.com/edrisranjbar/lifeos/blob/main/docs/growth.md | | Focus | Timed sessions with short and long breaks, session history and a focus soundtrack. | | Finance | Expenses, income and budgets in Toman. Debts you owe and credits owed to you, one-time or recurring, recorded straight into the ledger. Guide https://github.com/edrisranjbar/lifeos/blob/main/docs/financial-commitments.md | | Habittify | Daily habits with completion, streaks and monthly progress. | | Kanban | Draggable cards and lists with priorities, labels, dates, checklists, comments and file attachments. | | Calendar | Due cards and financial dues across all boards in Month or Schedule view. | | Goals | SMART goals with measures, deadlines, priorities, checklists — or progress driven by a habit. | | Notepad | Markdown notes with preview and export. | | Notes | Sticky notes with colors, fonts and connections. | Dates follow Asia/Tehran . The weather card shows Qeshm Island via Open-Meteo; its tide figure is a modeled estimate, not for navigation. Edi Life OS ships with an optional MCP https://modelcontextprotocol.io server that exposes 26 tools across your dashboard, goals, tasks, habits, finances and notes. Connect it to Claude Desktop, Claude Code or any MCP client and ask in plain language: "Show me my LifeOS dashboard." "Create a SMART goal called Build a home studio, due in three months, and add Buy acoustic panels as a task." "Mark Reading complete for today." "Log a 450,000 Toman food expense and show my balance." The MCP server talks to your app only through its token-protected HTTP API. It never touches your database or credentials. Setup takes a minute — see MCP server mcp-server below. git clone https://github.com/edrisranjbar/lifeos.git && cd lifeos cp .env.example .env set your sign-in and passwords docker compose up -d Open localhost:8080 http://localhost:8080 and sign in. MySQL, the app and your attachments each live in their own volume, so docker compose up -d --build after a git pull upgrades without losing data. Download lifeos-<version .zip from the latest release https://github.com/edrisranjbar/lifeos/releases/latest and extract it into your hosting home directory , so public html/ becomes your web root and the backend sits safely above it. Copy config.example.php to config.php , fill in your MySQL details, and open your site. See the deployment guide https://github.com/edrisranjbar/lifeos/blob/main/docs/deployment.md for details. You need PHP 8.1+ with pdo mysql and mbstring and MySQL 8+ or MariaDB 10.4+ . git clone https://github.com/edrisranjbar/lifeos.git cd lifeos cp config.example.php config.php PowerShell: Copy-Item config.example.php config.php Edit config.php with your database connection and the username and password you want to sign in with, then start the server: php -S localhost:8000 -t public html server.php Open localhost:8000 http://localhost:8000 and sign in. The database and tables are created on first use. You can change your sign-in later in Settings . Important config.php and .env hold real credentials and are gitignored. Never commit them. | Component | Requirement | |---|---| | PHP | 8.1+ with pdo mysql and mbstring | | Database | MySQL 8+ ; also tested with MariaDB 10.4 | | Web server | PHP's built-in server locally; Apache with rewrites for hosting | | Weather | PHP curl and outbound HTTPS | | MCP server | Optional: Node.js 22.9+ | | API tests | Optional: pdo sqlite | A private /api/v1 API covers the dashboard, goals, tasks, habits, finances and sticky notes. It uses its own bearer token, separate from your browser sign-in. php -r "echo bin2hex random bytes 32 ;" Set the result as api token in config.php or the LIFEOS API TOKEN environment variable , then: curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $LIFEOS API TOKEN" https://your-host/api/v1/dashboard See the API reference https://github.com/edrisranjbar/lifeos/blob/main/docs/api.md for endpoints, payloads and errors. cd mcp npm ci cp .env.example .env set LIFEOS BASE URL and LIFEOS API TOKEN npm start The server runs over stdio ; there is no hosted MCP endpoint. The MCP guide https://github.com/edrisranjbar/lifeos/blob/main/mcp/README.md lists every tool and shows client configuration for Claude and Codex. - Everything lives in your MySQL database. Habits use dedicated tables; other workspaces store JSON documents in app state . - Saves use revision checks, so a stale tab can't silently overwrite newer changes. API writes use transactions and row locks. - Data from older browser-only versions is imported once; conflicting copies are archived as legacy backup records. - Back up the database, attachment files and your configuration together. Moving from the old Habittify SQLite database? See migrating Habittify https://github.com/edrisranjbar/lifeos/blob/main/docs/deployment.md migrating-habittify-from-sqlite . Edi Life OS is built for a single owner . - The API token grants read and write access to every supported domain. Token scopes and app-level rate limiting are not implemented, so set request limits at the hosting layer. - Use HTTPS anywhere other than localhost, and keep tokens out of URLs, frontend code, screenshots and logs. - Secret notes are hidden from API reads by default. The secret flag controls visibility; it is not separate encryption. public html/ Browser workspaces, shared assets and Apache entry points lib/ API domains, response helpers and state transactions mcp/ Optional Node.js stdio MCP server tests/ Timer, API, MySQL and integration checks docs/ Guides, plus README screenshots in docs/media config.example.php Configuration template no real credentials server.php Development router and application routing api.php HTTP API entry point Built with PHP, MySQL and vanilla JavaScript — no frontend build step, no framework. Dockerfile , docker-compose.yml and docker/config.php run the app with configuration from environment variables. - API reference https://github.com/edrisranjbar/lifeos/blob/main/docs/api.md — authentication, routes, data formats and concurrency - MCP guide https://github.com/edrisranjbar/lifeos/blob/main/mcp/README.md — tools, environment settings and client setup - Deployment guide https://github.com/edrisranjbar/lifeos/blob/main/docs/deployment.md — Apache, shared hosting, backups and migration - Development guide https://github.com/edrisranjbar/lifeos/blob/main/docs/development.md — local checks and disposable integration fixtures - Growth workspace https://github.com/edrisranjbar/lifeos/blob/main/docs/growth.md · Debts and credits https://github.com/edrisranjbar/lifeos/blob/main/docs/financial-commitments.md MIT https://github.com/edrisranjbar/lifeos/blob/main/LICENSE © 2026 Edris Ranjbar. Use it, fork it and build on it. Ideas, bug reports and pull requests are welcome. Open an issue https://github.com/edrisranjbar/lifeos/issues to start a conversation, and see the development guide https://github.com/edrisranjbar/lifeos/blob/main/docs/development.md to run the checks locally. If Edi Life OS helps you run your days, consider giving it a ⭐ — it helps others find it.