Today in Marco

 

Checking temperature, rain, wind, and humidity.

 

Pickleball

 

Morning playability will appear here.

Tap the Pickleball button below for a fresh check.

Fishing & Boat

 

Inshore and 5-mile offshore notes will appear here.

Always check the official marine forecast before leaving the dock.

Tides

 

Next high and low tide will appear here.

 

Today's To-Do

0 today

Tap the mic and say "add buy bait to my list" to add a task.

Weather Radar Live NOAA radar for Marco area YouTube Pickleball, fishing, training Gmail Open your email

Built-in helper

Dad's AI Assistant

Ready
Hi Dad. I can help with weather, pickleball, fishing, the boat, YouTube, Gmail, or anything on this screen. Tap a button or just ask.

For weather, boating, fishing rules, or red tide, always check official sources (NOAA, NWS, FWC, Fish Rules, Simrad, Navionics) before final decisions.

About this dashboard

Inside Dad's Marco Command Center

Built specifically for you, Dad

  • It already knows you launch from your own dock — not a public boat ramp. Fishing Planner defaults to "leaving from your dock" instead of asking you which ramp.
  • It knows your inshore go-to species: trout, redfish, snook, and whiting. Fishing advice and Florida fishing-rule reminders are tailored to those four first.
  • Tides come from NOAA's Naples station (8725110) — the closest official tide gauge to Marco Island. You're getting the same data NOAA shows commercial captains.
  • Pickleball checks anchor to your morning routine — the 8:00 to 9:30 AM window at the City of Marco Island Racquet Center. The helper thinks about your conditions, not the average pickleball player's.
  • The photo of us — the one in the header, on the Carson Help button, and as the icon for this app on your desktop — is from our 2001 trip with the striped bass. One picture, restored and used three ways.
  • Built for this laptop, ready for your iPhone too. If you ever want it on your phone, open matt.discovermarco.com in Safari, tap Share, then "Add to Home Screen" — it'll install as an app and respect the notch like a native one.
  • One assistant, one product. No choosing between AI brands, no logging in, no subscriptions to remember. Just Dad's AI Assistant.

What's inside

  • Live weather and marine forecasts straight from the National Weather Service — the same source the local TV weather uses.
  • Live tide predictions from NOAA, the federal agency that runs every official tide station in the country.
  • Up-to-the-minute conditions for Marco Island — temperature, wind, humidity, rain — refreshed continuously.
  • A built-in helper that already knows about your dock, your fishing spots, your boat electronics, and your morning routine.
  • Voice recognition built right in — works on the laptop and on iPhone if you ever add it to your Home Screen.
  • Securely encrypted end to end. Your conversations stay private.
  • No ads, no trackers, no subscriptions. Carson runs the small server that powers this — he controls every part of it.
  • If the helper ever can't be reached, every button, link, and card still works. Designed to never leave you stranded.
  • A welcome band that changes through the day — softer at dawn, bright at midday, warm at dusk. The dashboard you see at sunrise isn't the same one you see at sunset.
  • Simple line icons on every button — same family across the whole dashboard, designed for quick reading.
  • Calm by default. If your computer is set to reduce motion, the dashboard listens — no shimmer, no fade-in, just instant.

What you can do

  • Ask "Should I play pickleball this morning?" and get a simple Great / Fine / Caution / Skip rating.
  • Tap Morning Briefing for a quick read on weather, pickleball, tides, and one tip for the day.
  • Tap Fishing Planner before taking the boat out — it knows you launch from your dock and reminds you to check NOAA first.
  • Walk through a Navionics chart update one step at a time. The helper waits for you to say "done" before moving on.
  • Get a Simrad software check or help reading what's on the screen.
  • Skip typing — tap 🎙 Talk and just say what you want.
  • Ask anything in plain English: "What's the tide doing this afternoon?" or "Find me a YouTube video on pickleball drills."
  • Tap Gmail, YouTube, or Weather Radar to jump straight there.
  • Tap 🎙 Talk and say "add buy bait to my list" — it lands in Today's To-Do right under the cards.
  • If anything ever feels wrong or confusing, tap Carson Help — your son walks you through it.

Built by Carson, for Dad. Marco Island, 2026.