A Permalink for This Month's Dashboard

The scenario

You have a dashboard you check often — a Looker view, a Metabase chart, a GA4 report, a Stripe revenue page. The dashboard supports date filters via URL parameters, but every time you open it you have to re-pick the range. By the time the new month rolls around, the bookmark in your browser bar is showing last month's numbers.

You want a single link — nimble.li/this-month — that always opens the dashboard filtered to the first-through-last of the current month, no matter when you click it.

How to set it up

1. Create a Redirect Formula link

Redirect Formula lets you build a destination URL out of placeholders that get computed at click time. Open the tool and paste your dashboard URL, but swap the date values for placeholders:

https://metabase.example.com/dashboard/12?from={{From}}&to={{To}}

Then bind the two placeholders to date functions:

• From → Date function, base = first day of current month
• To → Date function, base = last day of current month

When someone clicks the link, Nimble Links computes today's date, derives the first and last of the current month, substitutes them into the URL, and redirects to the result.

2. Set a memorable custom URL

Give the link a custom URL like nimble.li/this-month or nimble.li/dashboard-now. Bookmark it in your browser, pin it in Slack, drop it in your team's runbook.

3. Use it in your team rituals

Replace screenshots and stale snapshot links with the permalink. The Monday metrics email links to it. The team handbook links to it. The analytics channel pinned message links to it. Everywhere you'd normally write "filter the dashboard to this month before looking," you now just share the link.

What you get

• One bookmark, forever — No more monthly date-picking. The link in your browser bar still points to live current-month data in November.
• Live data, not snapshots — Every click computes the date range fresh, so your team always sees current numbers instead of whatever you happened to filter to last week.
• Works with most BI tools — Anything with date filters in the URL: Looker, Metabase, Mode, Tableau, Hex, Sigma, GA4, Stripe, Plausible, etc.
• Per-link analytics — See how often the dashboard view actually gets opened. Useful for understanding which reports your team relies on.

Variations

Other date ranges

You're not limited to the current month. Adjust the Date function's base to get any range you want:

• nimble.li/today → from = current date, to = current date
• nimble.li/this-week → from = first day of current week, to = last day of current week
• nimble.li/last-30-days → from = 30 days before current date, to = current date
• nimble.li/this-quarter → from = first day of current quarter, to = last day of current quarter
• nimble.li/ytd → from = first day of current year, to = current date

Create one Formula link per view. Each gets its own URL, its own filter logic, and its own analytics.

Pre-filtered links per region

If your dashboard segments by country, you can pass the visitor's country in too:

https://looker.example.com/dashboard/sales?from={{From}}&to={{To}}&country={{Country}}

Bind Country to the User's Country function. Each regional lead opens the same shared link and lands on a view filtered to their country and the current month — without anyone having to maintain N copies of the link.

Pre-filled forms with today's date

The same pattern works for any URL with date params, not just dashboards. Pre-fill a Google Form with today's date:

https://forms.google.com/d/abc/viewform?entry.456={{Today}}