For executive assistants
Board pack week. Still chasing papers.
In Plexii, the board pack gets one desk.
The problem
Board pack week means chasing papers, keeping the agenda current and booking the room and lunch, often while your executive asks about something else entirely.
In the video: “Board pack week. Twelve papers to chase, the agenda in one file, catering in an email.”
How PlexiDesk handles it
In PlexiDesk, the board pack gets one desk. A desk is one canvas for one piece of work, and the video tours three of its widgets:
Who's sent what
In the video: “Every paper, and the people you're still chasing.”
A Table widget tracks every paper and the people you are still chasing.
The agenda
In the video: “The agenda, waiting on the chair's sign-off.”
A Page widget holds the agenda while it waits on the chair's sign-off.
Room, lunch, dial-in
In the video: “The room, the lunch, the dial-in.”
A Custom block is a form you design once: here, the room, the lunch and the dial-in details for the meeting.
When something else comes up
In the video: “Then your boss asks about her Singapore trip. Switch desks, nothing to rebuild. The board pack waits where you left it.”
The other job gets a desk of its own, so switching does not mean packing anything away. In the video, “Quarterly board pack” stays exactly as it was while “Singapore trip” 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.
One desk for each job on your plate.
Try it
Try an executive assistant deskThe interactive demo builds a ready-made desk for this kind of work in your browser. Nothing to install.
Or 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
Board pack desk: agenda, papers and actions assembled on time
Track every board paper by owner and due date, keep the timed agenda, the management report and the financials together, and carry the last meeting's actions forward.
- Desk template
Executive business trip desk: itinerary, briefing and budget
One desk per executive trip: the briefing and itinerary, a budget checked against the policy cap, every venue on a map and the people to meet.
Related reading
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The real cost of context switching, and how to switch less
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Transcript
Board pack week. Twelve papers to chase, the agenda in one file, catering in an email. In Plexii, the board pack gets one desk. Every paper, and the people you're still chasing. The agenda, waiting on the chair's sign-off. The room, the lunch, the dial-in. Then your boss asks about her Singapore trip. Switch desks, nothing to rebuild. The board pack waits where you left it. One desk for each job on your plate.
Real app footage of a demo desk with sample data. The illustrations and the voice are AI-generated.