# Pulse widget > Four live counts on Home: open, due today, overdue and closed in the last seven days. Click any number to open the Attention page. Source: https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-pulse Section: Home dashboard > Home widgets Plans: All plans Updated: 2026-10-10 Pulse sums up the state of your work in four numbers: how much is open, what is due today, what is overdue and how much you closed this week. Keep it on Home to see at a glance whether anything is slipping. Click any number to go to the Attention page and deal with it. ## Where you find it - **Home** and **Brain Home** include Pulse, at its Small size, when you start out. See [The Home dashboard](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-dashboard). - It comes in two sizes: **Small** (where it starts) and **Medium**, a wider tile. Both show the same four numbers. ## Before you start - The widget is on every plan. - Pulse counts the items Attention keeps track of: the tasks on your desks, such as those in a [Tasks widget](https://plexiidesk.com/help/widget-tasks), and anything captured into Attention. A desk itself is not counted, only the tasks on it. - To capture items into Attention, and to let Plexii file things there for you, turn the Attention layer on. See [Turn Attention on or off](https://plexiidesk.com/help). Every number is counted directly from your items. Nothing is estimated and no AI is involved, so a zero means there is nothing to count. ## What each number means - **Open**: everything that still needs doing, whatever its status, for example not started, in progress or waiting on someone. Items you have snoozed are counted too. - **Due today**: open items due later today. Once an item's due time has passed it moves to **Overdue**, so it is never counted twice. - **Overdue**: open items whose due date and time have passed. - **Closed · 7d**: items closed in the last seven days, whatever word closed them, such as Done, Reviewed or Responded. Items you archived, or let go without doing, are not counted. Click any of the four numbers to open the Attention page, where you can see and work through the items. See [Attention: everything that needs you](https://plexiidesk.com/help). ## Act on what you see - **Something is overdue.** Open the Attention page and close, reschedule or snooze each item. To keep the overdue items themselves on Home, add the [Overdue radar widget](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-overdue-radar). - **Something is due today.** The [Today's agenda widget](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-todays-agenda) lists today's due work beside your meetings and focus time. - **Open keeps growing.** Close what is finished and archive what you are keeping but not doing. See [Close, snooze, archive and edit an item](https://plexiidesk.com/help). To see exactly the items behind a number, use the Attention filters in the side menu: click the arrow beside **Attention**, then choose **Open**, **Due today**, **Overdue** or **Closed 7d**. See [Filter Attention: due today, overdue, waiting and more](https://plexiidesk.com/help). The filters count a little differently from Pulse: the **Due today** filter also includes overdue items, and the **Open** filter leaves out snoozed items. ## Add it to a dashboard 1. Open the dashboard you want: **Home** in the side menu, or **Office Home**, **People Home** or **Brain Home** in those areas' menus. See [Desk, Office, People and Brain: the four areas](https://plexiidesk.com/help/plexii-areas). 2. Click **Customize** at the top right of the dashboard. 3. Click **Add widget**. 4. Click **Live**, or type "pulse" in **Search widgets**. 5. Click **Pulse**. A live preview shows your own numbers. 6. Use the arrows beside the preview, or the dots under it, to choose **Small** or **Medium**. 7. Click **Add widget**. The widget appears at the end of the board, briefly highlighted. 8. Drag it to where you want it, then click **Done**. If the Pulse card shows a tick and **Already on your home**, it is already on this dashboard. Each dashboard can have one Pulse widget. ### Resize, move or remove it 1. Click **Customize**. 2. To change the size, click the size button at the widget's top right corner. It shows the current size (**SM** or **MD**), and each click switches to the other one. 3. To move the widget, press and drag it to a new spot. 4. To remove it, click the **×** at its top right corner (**Remove Pulse**). 5. Click **Done**, or press `Esc`. Your arrangement is saved on this computer, separately for each dashboard. See [Customize your Home dashboard](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-customize). ## Good ways to use it - **A morning check.** Glance at **Overdue** and **Due today** before you plan the day. - **A weekly review.** **Closed · 7d** shows how much you finished this week. The [Recent activity widget](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-recent-activity) lists the latest of those items by name. - **Next to the things it counts.** Place Pulse beside Today's agenda or the Overdue radar so the numbers and the items sit together. ## Common questions **Pulse shows 0 but I have work to do.** Pulse counts the tasks on your desks and the items in Attention, not desks themselves. Add tasks to a desk, or capture what needs doing into Attention. See [Capture something into Attention](https://plexiidesk.com/help). **Why did Due today go down and Overdue go up?** An item that was due earlier today counts as overdue once its due time passes. **Does Pulse use AI?** No. It counts your items as they are. **Can I make Pulse show different numbers?** No. Pulse always shows these four. For other views of your work, see the [Attention widget (Home)](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-attention). ## Related tasks - [Turn Attention on or off](https://plexiidesk.com/help) - [Attention: everything that needs you](https://plexiidesk.com/help) - [Overdue radar widget](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-overdue-radar) - [Today's agenda widget](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-todays-agenda) - [Continue widget](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-continue) - [The Home dashboard](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-dashboard)