Manifest-driven dashboard so I'd never maintain another INDEX.md (Flask)

dev.to article #29 (paste-ready) — I built a manifest-driven dashboard so I'd never maintain another INDEX.md Calendar : 2026-06-12 09:00 PT Tags : #indie #python #flask #productivity #dashboard Word count : 1850 Cover image : 1000×420 — dashboard screenshot with TODO/Check/Run panels TL;DR After 100 ticks of indie hacking, I had 50+ markdown files (research, drafts, SOPs, code) scattered across INBOX/ , reports/ , products/ , and 6 Swift app repos. My INDEX.md was always stale because I'd ship