# Standup widget > Your daily standup on Home: what you finished since last time, what to pick up next, suggestions worth a look, and ways to save it to a desk or document. Source: https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-standup Section: Home dashboard > Home widgets Plans: All plans Updated: 2026-10-10 The Standup widget gives you a short catch-up on your day: what you finished since you last looked, and what is worth picking up next. It sits first on your Home dashboard, under the title **Your standup**. Read it when you start work, or when you come back after time away and want to get your bearings. ## Where you find it - **Home** has the Standup widget first on the board when you start out, and **People Home** includes it too. See [The Home dashboard](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-dashboard). - It always uses the large tile, so it has room for the whole catch-up. - If you removed it, you can add it back at any time. See "Add it to a dashboard" below. ## Before you start - **Sign in.** Your standup is kept with your account. If you are not signed in, the tile stays empty or says **Sign in to see your daily standup.** See [Create an account and sign in](https://plexiidesk.com/help). - **Plexii AI writes the catch-up.** It runs on your AI credits while you are signed in, or on your own Anthropic key. Without AI you still get a plain summary built from the same facts. See [AI credits and where your AI runs](https://plexiidesk.com/help) and [Add your own API keys](https://plexiidesk.com/help/api-keys). - The widget is on every plan. ## What the standup shows From top to bottom: 1. **The catch-up.** A short paragraph that first says what you completed since last time, then what to pick up next. With Plexii AI it reads as a few plain sentences. It is built from what is really in your workspace: what you marked done, the desks and tasks still open or in progress, your upcoming calendar and your recent documents. 2. **Worth a look.** Suggestions about things that need you soon, such as an overdue desk or a meeting about to start. This part shows only when there is something to suggest. See "Worth a look" below. 3. **Completed since last time.** Up to eight things you finished, each with a green tick. Click one to open it. 4. **Next up.** Up to five desks and tasks that are open or in progress, led by the ones you marked most important. Click a chip to open it. In a new, empty workspace the standup simply says you are all caught up. While it is being put together you see **Putting your standup together…** for a moment. > **Note:** > If you see **Showing a plain summary.** under the standup, the catch-up was not written by Plexii AI. The rest of that line says why: either Plexii AI is not set up on this computer yet, or the written version could not be made just then, in which case refresh again a little later. To set up AI, see [AI credits and where your AI runs](https://plexiidesk.com/help). ## How it stays up to date - **It is built once a day.** The first time you open the dashboard each day, the standup looks back to where your previous standup left off. For the rest of the day you see that same standup, so it does not change every time you come back to Home. - **Refresh builds it again now.** Click the circular arrow at the top right of the widget (**Refresh the standup**). The new standup looks back from the previous one, so **Completed since last time** then lists only what you finished since it was last built. - **It follows you.** Today's standup is kept with your account, so you see the same standup on each computer you sign in on that day. The standup counts work you marked done, for example a desk or a task you set to **Done**. See [Track a desk's status and time](https://plexiidesk.com/help/desk-status-time). ## You or your team When you are working in an organisation, two buttons appear beside the title: **You** and **Team**. - **You** shows what you completed and what is next for you. This is where the standup starts. - **Team** shows what everyone in the organisation completed, and the catch-up talks about the team. Switching between them only changes what you are looking at. Your next daily standup still starts from the same point. In your personal space the buttons do not appear. See [Organisation settings and switching workspaces](https://plexiidesk.com/help). ## Worth a look **Worth a look** lists suggestions that PlexiDesk finds by checking your calendar, your desks and your mail. They are not written by AI: each one points at a real meeting, desk or message. You may see: - **A meeting or time block starting soon.** Anything on your calendar that starts within the next hour, or started less than 15 minutes ago. **Open** takes you to the Calendar. - **A desk or task that needs you.** One that is overdue, one due in the next two days, or one that has been in progress for more than five days without being finished. **Open** takes you to it. - **Mail to reply to.** Unread email from the last three days, shown as **Reply to** and the sender, with the subject underneath. **Open** takes you to Mail. These appear once you have connected a mail account. See [Connect your email account](https://plexiidesk.com/help). You see up to six suggestions from each of the three sources. The list checks again every two minutes, so suggestions come and go as things change. - Click **Open** to go to the meeting, desk or message. - Click **×** (**Dismiss**) to hide a suggestion. It stays hidden until you next start PlexiDesk. ## Save or share your standup You can keep a standup where you work, or share it by putting it on a desk other people can see. 1. Click **Save** at the top right of the widget (**Save or send this standup**). 2. Choose where it goes: - **Add to a desk…**: choose a desk from the list, then click **Add**. The standup lands on that desk as a [Markdown widget](https://plexiidesk.com/help/widget-markdown). - **New room + desk**: type a room name (it starts as **Standups**) and a desk name (it starts as Standup and today's date), then click **Create**. PlexiDesk makes the room, a desk inside it, and a Markdown widget on the desk holding the standup. - **Save to Drive**: saves the standup as a new document alongside your other documents. - **Save to a Drive folder…**: choose a folder, or **Drive (root)**, then click **Save**. The new document is filed in that folder. 3. A message confirms where it went. Click **Open** to go there, or **Done** to close the menu. The saved copy is titled **Standup** (or **Team standup**) with the date. It holds the catch-up, the list of what was completed, and a line of counts, such as how many things were completed, created and updated. To share it with colleagues, save it to a desk and share that desk. See [Share a desk with specific people](https://plexiidesk.com/help/share-desk-with-people). To find a saved document again, see [The Documents page](https://plexiidesk.com/help) and [Files: your folders and files](https://plexiidesk.com/help). > **Tip:** > To keep a running record, choose **New room + desk** the first time. On later days, use **Add to a desk…** and pick the same desk, so each day's standup collects in one place. ## Add it to a dashboard 1. Open the dashboard you want: **Home** in the side menu, or **People Home**, **Office 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 "standup" in **Search widgets**. 5. Click **Standup**. A live preview shows your own standup at its one size, **Large**. 6. Click **Add widget**. The widget appears at the end of the board, briefly highlighted. 7. Drag it to where you want it, then click **Done**. If the Standup card shows a tick and **Already on your home**, it is already on this dashboard. Each dashboard can have one Standup widget. ### Move or remove it 1. Click **Customize**. 2. To move the widget, press and drag it to a new spot. The other widgets make room. 3. To remove it, click the **×** at its top right corner (**Remove Standup**). 4. Click **Done**, or press `Esc`. Your arrangement is saved on this computer, separately for each dashboard. **Reset layout**, shown in Customize once you have changed something, puts back the dashboard's starting widgets. For everything else you can do in Customize, see [Customize your Home dashboard](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-customize). To let Plexii arrange a dashboard for you, see [Set up a dashboard with Plexii](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-setup-wizard). ## Good ways to use it - **Start the day.** Read the catch-up, then click the first chip under **Next up** to open that desk and begin. - **Give it something to count.** Set desks and tasks to **Done** as you finish them, and give desks an importance, so the standup can tell what you finished and what matters most. - **Before a team meeting.** In an organisation, switch to **Team** to see what everyone completed. - **Keep a log.** Save each day's standup to the same desk, as in the tip above. ## Common questions **My standup is empty.** Make sure you are signed in. The standup needs your account to know where you left off. **I finished something but it is not listed.** The standup counts what you marked done, such as a desk or task set to **Done**. If you finished it after the standup was built today, click refresh. **The Completed list got shorter after I refreshed.** Each standup looks back to the one before it. After a refresh, it lists only what you completed since the previous build. **It says Showing a plain summary.** Plexii AI was not available. Check how AI is set up on this computer: AI credits while you are signed in, or your own Anthropic key. See [Add your own API keys](https://plexiidesk.com/help/api-keys). If the line says the written standup could not be generated just now, refresh again in a few minutes. **I do not see the You and Team buttons.** They appear only while you are working in an organisation. Switch with the workspace switcher at the top of the side menu. **Can I have the standup on more than one dashboard?** Yes. Home, Office Home, People Home and Brain Home can each have one Standup widget. ## Related tasks - [The Home dashboard](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-dashboard) - [Customize your Home dashboard](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-customize) - [Today's agenda widget](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-todays-agenda) - [Pulse widget](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-pulse) - [Continue widget](https://plexiidesk.com/help/home-widget-continue) - [Track a desk's status and time](https://plexiidesk.com/help/desk-status-time)