# The Home dashboard > Home greets you, gives you one bar to ask, search or jump, and shows a board of widgets you arrange. Office, People and Brain each have one too. Source: https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-dashboard Section: Home dashboard > Your Home dashboard Plans: All plans Updated: 2026-10-10 Home is your starting point in the Desk area. It greets you, gives you one bar to ask Plexii, search the web or jump straight to anything, and shows a board of widgets with what is happening across your workspace. You decide which widgets are on the board, how big they are and where they sit. ## Before you start - **Plans.** Home is on every plan. - **Some widgets need more.** A few widgets need you to be signed in, or need Plexii's AI. Each widget's own article says what it needs. ## Open your Home dashboard Any of these takes you there: - Click **Home** in the side menu. If the menu is minimised, click the Home icon. - Switch to the **Desk** area at the top of any area's menu. It always opens Home. See [Desk, Office, People and Brain](https://plexiidesk.com/help/plexii-areas). - Press `⌘` `K` on a Mac (`Ctrl` `K` on Windows), type **home** and choose **Go to Home**. - On the PlexiDesk start page, click **Open my desk**. ## What is on Home From top to bottom: - **The greeting.** Good morning, Good afternoon or Good evening, with your name when PlexiDesk knows it, and a line underneath: "Here is your workspace and what is happening across it." - **Three buttons** at the top right: **Set up with Plexii**, **Customize** and **Focus mode**. Each is explained below. - **The Home bar.** One box to ask Plexii, search the web, open a web address or type **@** to jump to a desk, room, widget or document. See [The Home bar: ask, search and jump](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-bar). - **The widget board.** Your widgets, packed into a grid. ## Set up with Plexii Answer five short questions about how you work, and Plexii arranges the board for you. You see a preview first, and nothing changes until you choose **Use this dashboard**. See [Set up a dashboard with Plexii](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-setup-wizard). ## Customize Click **Customize** to move, resize, add, replace and remove widgets. While you are customizing, the button reads **Done**. See [Customize your Home dashboard](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-customize). ## Focus mode **Focus mode** starts a five-minute focus session that is not tied to any desk. Use it when you want a short, protected run at something without opening a desk first. 1. Click **Focus mode**. 2. A timer appears at the top of the window and counts down. 3. Work. The timer counts only while PlexiDesk is the app in front. If you switch to another app, it pauses and says **paused**, then carries on when you come back. 4. When the time is up, choose **Done for now**, or keep going for a few more minutes. While a session is running, the button reads **End focus mode**. Click it to finish the session, or click the **×** on the timer to end it early. To start a session on a particular desk, or for longer, see [Start a focus session](https://plexiidesk.com/help). You can also put a [Focus timer widget](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-focus-timer) on the board. ## The widget board Home starts with seven widgets: **Standup**, **Rooms and desks** and **Continue where you left off** across the top, then four smaller ones: **Today's agenda**, **Pulse**, **Quick actions** and **Recent activity**. - **Widgets show your real work.** Click a desk, a document or an item in a widget to open it. - **An empty widget says so.** For example, with no documents yet, Continue where you left off says "Nothing to pick up yet. Create a document and it will wait for you here." - **The board fits your window.** On a wide window it is four columns across. As the window narrows it drops to two columns and then one, and the wider widgets fill the width. - **Your layout is saved on this computer.** Each computer you use keeps its own arrangement. Every screen, including your desks, stands on the same floor colour as the Home dashboard, in every theme, light or dark, so moving between Home and a desk feels like one place. See [Light, dark and colour themes](https://plexiidesk.com/help). ## Office Home, People Home and Brain Home Office, People and Brain each have a dashboard of their own. They work exactly like Home: the same greeting, the same three buttons, the same Home bar and the same kind of widget board. Each one starts with widgets that suit its area and keeps its own saved layout, so changing one never changes the others. | Dashboard | How to open it | Starting widgets | | --- | --- | --- | | **Office Home** | In the Office menu, under **Communicate**, click **Office Home**. | Office document, Continue where you left off, Quick actions, Recent activity | | **People Home** | Switch to the **People** area. It opens on People Home, which is also listed under **Apps** in the People menu. | Team status, Standup, Today's agenda, Recent activity | | **Brain Home** | Switch to the **Brain** area and click **Brain Home**, either in the menu under **Apps** or on its tile. | Rooms and desks, Continue where you left off, Pulse, Recent activity | To arrange any of them, use **Customize** on that dashboard. The steps are the same as on Home. See [Customize your Home dashboard](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-customize). ### Keep a document open on Office Home Office Home starts with an **Office document** widget, which keeps one document, spreadsheet or presentation open and editable right on the dashboard. 1. Open **Office Home**. 2. On the Office document widget, click **Choose a document**. 3. In the **Which document?** list, click the one you want. Type in **Search documents…** to find it faster. 4. The document opens in its own editor inside the widget. What you type there is saved to the document itself, the same as opening it in Office. To show a different document, click **Customize**, then the pencil on the widget. To keep several documents on the board, add more Office document widgets. See [Office document widget](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-office-document). On the **Continue where you left off** widget, **All documents** opens your Documents page. > **Note:** > Office Home, under **Communicate**, is the dashboard described here. The **Home** page at the top of the Office menu is a different page, for creating files and finding recent ones. See [The Office Home page](https://plexiidesk.com/help). ## Every Home widget These are all the widgets you can put on a dashboard, in the groups the widget gallery uses. Click a name for the full guide. ### Navigation - [Rooms and desks](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-rooms-and-desks): your rooms on the left; click one to see its desks on the right. - [Pinned desk](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-pinned-desk): one desk you care about, one click away. - [Desk object](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-desk-object): one object from a desk, live and editable on the dashboard. - [Office document](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-office-document): a document, spreadsheet or presentation in its own editor, live and editable. - [Room portal](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-room-portal): one room and the desks inside it. - [Shortcuts](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-shortcuts): your own tiles to desks, documents, websites and apps. - [App launcher](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-app-launcher): your favourite connected apps, shown by their logos. ### Live - [Standup](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-standup): a look back at what you finished and a look ahead at today, told as one short story. - [Today's agenda](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-todays-agenda): the time blocks on your calendar today. - [Pulse](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-pulse): open, due and overdue counts at a glance. - [Continue](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-continue): the documents you worked on most recently. - [Recent activity](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-recent-activity): what happened across your workspace in the last week. - [Overdue radar](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-overdue-radar): only the tasks that are past their due date. - [Team status](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-team-status): who is around, standups and team activity. Offered on People Home only. ### Smart - [One thing now](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-one-thing-now): the single most pressing task, on its own. - [Where was I](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-where-was-i): your last working context, with a **Resume** button. - [Stalled desk](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-stalled-desk): the in-progress desk that has waited longest for you. - [Attention](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-attention): everything that needs you in one widget, with sections you slide between. ### Actions - [Quick actions](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-quick-actions): buttons to **Create** a document, **Plan**, **Collaborate** and **Automate**. - [Create new](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-create-new): start a document, spreadsheet, deck or desk in one click. - [Focus timer](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-focus-timer): start and stop a five-minute focus session from the dashboard. - [New desk](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-new-desk): a fresh desk in one click, opened straight away. - [Discover](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-discover): start from an idea and let Plexii shape it into a desk. ### Communication - [New meeting](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-new-meeting): start or schedule a PlexiiMeet meeting and invite people. - [Pinned conversation](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-pinned-conversation): one person or chat, with its unread count, one click away. - [Transcribe](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-transcribe): record and transcribe, then keep the result where it belongs. ## Common questions **My Home looks different on my other computer.** Each computer keeps its own arrangement, so set up the board on each one the way you like it. **I removed a widget by mistake.** Click **Customize**, then **Add widget**, and add it again. Or click **Reset layout** to go back to the starting widgets. See [Customize your Home dashboard](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-customize). **Can I have the same widget twice?** Yes for Pinned desk, Desk object, Office document, Room portal, Shortcuts and Pinned conversation, so you can pin several desks, rooms or chats. Every other widget appears once per dashboard. **Why can I not find Team status on Home?** Team status is offered on People Home only. **What is the difference between Focus mode and the Focus timer widget?** Both start the same five-minute session. Focus mode is always at the top of the dashboard; the Focus timer is a widget you can place and size on the board. ## Related tasks - [Customize your Home dashboard](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-customize) - [Set up a dashboard with Plexii](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-setup-wizard) - [The Home bar: ask, search and jump](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-bar) - [The side menu](https://plexiidesk.com/help/side-menu) - [Start a focus session](https://plexiidesk.com/help)