Well after playing with mine for awhile, this is what I have come up with:
I tried hard not to clutter up the screen too much with useless and/or redundant buttons and notifications, and I'll probably play with it some more, but it's not bad. It serves my purposes well. I'm thinking of removing Weather Panel from the main screen and creating a tab at the top for that so I can try a full screen phoneAlarm skin. I'm a little bit obsessive so it will probably be a continuously evolving today screen, but I'm glad this phone is so customizable!
The only extra software I used is SPB Pocket Plus 4, phoneAlarm, and Weather Panel.