Plugins are content on your device, Playlists are that content's schedule.
(If you joined TRMNL before July 2025, opt into this feature from your Account)
Playlist Items
A playlist item is a single piece of content that represents a single plugin or Mashup.
From left to right:
The icon, decided by its author (TRMNL or a community member)
A thumbnail of this item's most recent render
Title (e.g. "This Day in History"), item type, and schedule(s)
Badge indicating the last time your device rendered this content
Gear icon to quickly jump to the item's settings
"X" icon to remove this item from your Playlist
Eyeball icon to show/hide this item temporarily (ignored by your device, not disconnected from your account)
Calendar icon to manage the item's schedule
"Hamburger" icon to drag/drop the ordering of this item relative to others, for example Calendar-Weather-News, or Weather-News-Calendar
Playlist Scheduling
Unlike our legacy editor which rendered the same content every day of the week, the improved Playlists manager lets you dictate the timing, duration, and visibility of each playlist item on its own unique schedule.
Click the calendar icon on the right side of a playlist item to see how it works.
Default duration and schedule
If you don't make any changes, each item on your playlist will display 7 days per week for a length of time equal to your device's refresh rate. The slower your refresh rate, the longer your battery lasts (more details).
If you are OK with seeing the same content every day of the week, in the ordering you specific via the drag/drop functionality, no action is required.
Custom duration and scheduling
Click "Set a custom schedule" to expand the editor.
In this example we've updated our Work Calendar playlist item to show for 30 minutes, only during the M-F work week, from 08:00-12:30.
Multiple schedules
Click "+ And during" to set additional schedules for this same item.
In this example we've extended our Work Calendar item to also appear on Sunday afternoons from 15:00-21:00, which could be helpful for planning the next week.
Priority / Importance
Below your schedules is a toggle, Important. If you enable this, other items that match the set schedules will be ignored unless they are also set as Important.
This can be helpful for users with many different playlist items, who want to ensure that high priority content (like upcoming appointments) is not "buried" by other matching items.
You may tag as many items "important" as you want. Just note that if all your items are marked important, then your playlist will behave as if none of your items are marked as important.
Copy schedule from
For common use cases like "hide my work calendar on the weekends" there are a few default options in the "Copy schedule from" dropdown:
As you build out custom schedules, for example to see XKCD comics when they're released on M/W/F, you can adopt existing items' schedules into new items, reducing the setup time to make things exactly how you want them.