For managers juggling projects
Five projects. Two deadlines on the same day.
In Plexii, all five projects get one desk.
The problem
Five projects each live somewhere different: email, spreadsheets, chat and your own head. When the boss wants an update, you rebuild the picture from all of them.
In the video: “The boss wants an update. Five projects, each living somewhere else: email, spreadsheets, chat, your head.”
How PlexiDesk handles it
In PlexiDesk, all five projects get one desk. A desk is one canvas for one piece of work, and the video tours three of its widgets:
Two deadlines, one day
In the video: “The deadlines that clash, and the plan.”
A Card widget is a titled callout with an accent colour, used here for the deadlines that clash and the plan for them.
Where things stand
In the video: “Where each project's up to, and what's next.”
A Table widget shows where each project is up to and what is next, one row per project.
The update
In the video: “And the update, worst news first.”
A Page widget holds the update itself, drafted on the same desk as the facts it reports.
When something else comes up
In the video: “Then someone's waiting on your decision. Switch desks, nothing to rebuild. Your projects stay where you left them.”
The other job gets a desk of its own, so switching does not mean packing anything away. In the video, “Five projects, one week” stays exactly as it was while “Decisions and loose ends” is open. Open desks sit side by side as tabs in the open items strip, a click apart, and Resume writes a short note on where a desk stands for when you come back to it.
Your projects on one desk, loose ends on another.
Try it
Set up the desk yourself from a template: each one lists the widgets it needs and how to set it up in PlexiDesk.
- Desk template
Multi-project dashboard desk: every project, what's due and what's stuck
One desk that looks into the others: a live Portal onto each project desk, tasks and dates from everywhere, the Attention queue and a project register with counts, so the weekly portfolio view needs no copying.
- Desk template
Project status report desk: the weekly RAG update, drawn from the schedule
A weekly status report that reads its evidence from the schedule on the same desk, so the RAG colour has visible numbers behind it and a client can watch a live view.
Related reading
- Blog
The real cost of context switching, and how to switch less
Switching between tasks costs time and the thread you were holding. What the research says, and practical ways to switch less and recover faster.
- Blog
A simple system for organising project files, notes and links
One home per project, two levels of folders and a habit for finishing: a system for project files, notes and links that works with any tools.
Transcript
The boss wants an update. Five projects, each living somewhere else: email, spreadsheets, chat, your head. In Plexii, all five projects get one desk. The deadlines that clash, and the plan. Where each project's up to, and what's next. And the update, worst news first. Then someone's waiting on your decision. Switch desks, nothing to rebuild. Your projects stay where you left them. Your projects on one desk, loose ends on another.
Real app footage of a demo desk with sample data. The illustrations and the voice are AI-generated.