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New desk widget

A one-click button on your Home dashboard that makes a new desk called New desk and opens it straight away.

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The New desk widget is a small square button on your Home dashboard. One click makes a fresh, empty desk and takes you straight into it. There are no questions to answer first, so it suits the moments when you want a canvas now and will name it later.

Before you start

  • The widget is available on every plan, and every plan lets you create as many desks as you like.
  • You can add it to Home, Office Home, People Home or Brain Home, once on each.
  • It has one size, Icon. Four icon-size widgets fit in the space of one Small widget, so it takes up very little room.

Add the widget to your dashboard

  1. Open your Home dashboard and click Customize at the top right.
  2. Click Add widget.
  3. Click Actions, or type "desk" in Search widgets.
  4. Click New desk. The preview shows the icon.
  5. Click Add widget, drag the icon to where you want it, then click Done.

Make a desk

  1. Click New desk on your dashboard.
  2. PlexiDesk creates a desk called "New desk" and opens it. The desk sits at the top level, outside any room.
  3. Add what you need. See Add a widget to a desk.

To give the desk a proper name or move it into a room, see Rename a desk and move it to a room.

Remove the widget

  1. Click Customize at the top of the dashboard.
  2. Click the × at the top-right corner of the New desk icon.
  3. Click Done.

The icon has no size button, because it comes in one size only.

Good ways to use it

  • Capture an idea before it goes. Click, add a sticky note, and name the desk later.
  • Keep a row of one-click actions. Put it beside the Focus timer, Discover and New meeting icons.
  • Start from an idea instead of a blank canvas. The Discover widget talks an idea through with Plexii, which proposes the desk once you say yes.

Common questions

Where did my new desk go?

It is at the top level, not inside a room, and it is called "New desk" until you rename it. You can find it with your other desks. See Browse All rooms and All desks.

I made a desk by mistake

Move it to the Trash. See Archive, trash and restore rooms and desks.

Does this count towards a limit on the Free plan?

No. Every plan includes unlimited desks. The Free plan limits rooms, not desks. See Create and organise rooms.

Nothing happens when I click the icon

While you are customising the dashboard, widgets do not respond to clicks. Click Done first.

Still need help? Contact support at [email protected].