# Rooms and desks widget > Browse your rooms and their desks from the dashboard, open any desk in one click and start a new desk in the room you picked. Source: https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-rooms-and-desks Section: Home dashboard > Home widgets Plans: All plans Updated: 2026-10-10 **Rooms and desks** puts your rooms and desks on your dashboard. Your rooms are on the left; click one and its desks appear on the right, ready to open. Home and Brain Home start with it, so it is often the quickest way into your work. ## Before you start - **Plans.** The widget is on every plan. **New desk** works on every plan too: the Free plan limits how many rooms you have, not how many desks. See [What each plan includes](https://plexiidesk.com/help). - **Size.** It has one size, Large. - **Where it goes.** Home and Brain Home start with it. You can also add it to Office Home or People Home, once on each dashboard. ## What the widget shows ### Rooms, on the left - **Top level** is always first. It holds the desks that are not in any room. - Your rooms follow, the one changed most recently first. Rooms inside other rooms are not listed here. - Under each name is the number of desks directly inside it, such as **4 desks**. The selected room is highlighted and has an arrow beside it. ### Desks, on the right The desks in the selected room, up to eight, the one edited most recently first. Each desk shows its name and when it was last edited, such as **Edited 2h ago**. If the room has no desks, you see **No desks in here yet.** ### All rooms **All rooms**, at the top right of the widget, opens the **All rooms** page with every room you have. See [Browse All rooms and All desks](https://plexiidesk.com/help/rooms-desks-index). ## Open a desk or a room 1. Click a room on the left, or **Top level**. Its desks appear on the right. 2. Click a desk to open it. To open the room itself, click the selected room a second time (its tooltip says **Open room**). The room's page opens, listing all of its desks, including any beyond the eight the widget shows. ## Start a new desk 1. On the left, click the room you want the desk in, or **Top level**. 2. Under the desks, click **New desk in this room**. With **Top level** selected, the button says **New desk**. A desk called "New desk" is created in that room and opens straight away. To give it a name, see [Rename a desk and move it to a room](https://plexiidesk.com/help/desk-rename-move). For a desk with a name, a template, notes or a due date from the start, use **New desk** at the top of the side menu instead. See [Create a desk](https://plexiidesk.com/help/desk-create). ## Add the widget to a dashboard Home and Brain Home already have it. To add it to Office Home or People Home, or to put it back after removing it: 1. Open the dashboard and click **Customize** at the top right. 2. Click **Add widget**. 3. Click **Navigation**, or type "rooms" in **Search widgets**. 4. Click **Rooms and desks**. A live preview shows your own rooms. 5. Click **Add widget**. It appears at the end of the dashboard. 6. Drag it to where you want it, then click **Done**. If the card says **Already on your home**, this dashboard already has the widget. **Set up with Plexii** can also include it when it builds a dashboard for you. See [Set up your dashboard with Plexii](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-setup-wizard). ## Move or remove it 1. Click **Customize**. 2. Drag the widget to a new place, or click the **×** on its top right corner to take it off the dashboard. 3. Click **Done**. Removing the widget does not change your rooms or desks. ## Good ways to use it - **Make it your way in.** Start the day on Home: click a room, then the desk you need. - **Let the order work for you.** The rooms changed most recently and the desks edited most recently come first, so current work stays in view. - **Capture an idea fast.** Click the room it belongs in, click **New desk in this room**, and rename the desk once you are on it. ## Common questions ### A room is missing from the list The widget lists rooms at the top level. Rooms inside another room, and archived rooms, do not appear. Click **All rooms** to find any room. See [Archive, delete and restore desks](https://plexiidesk.com/help/desk-archive-trash) to bring back an archived room. ### A room has more desks than the widget shows The widget shows the eight desks you edited most recently. Click the room a second time to open it and see every desk in it. ### The desk count looks low The number under a room counts the desks directly in that room. Desks inside its sub-rooms are not included. ## Related tasks - [Browse All rooms and All desks](https://plexiidesk.com/help/rooms-desks-index) - [Create a desk](https://plexiidesk.com/help/desk-create) - [Create and organise rooms](https://plexiidesk.com/help/room-create) - [Pinned desk widget](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-pinned-desk) - [Room portal widget](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-room-portal) - [Customize your dashboard](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-customize)