# The controls on every widget > Every widget's title bar lets you move, rename, link, pin, resize, expand or remove it, and right-clicking it opens the widget's full menu. Source: https://plexiidesk.com/help/widget-title-bar Section: Widgets > Widget basics Plans: All plans Updated: 2026-10-10 Almost every widget has the same strip across its top: the title bar. It carries the widget's name and a short row of buttons, and it is also the handle you drag to move the widget. Once you know it on one widget, you know it on all of them. A Section has a header of its own instead. See [Section widget](https://plexiidesk.com/help). ## Move, resize and work in a widget - **Move it.** Drag the title bar. - **Resize it.** Drag any edge or corner of the widget. A widget can be no smaller than 180 by 120 pixels this way. - **Work in it.** Click inside the widget. It becomes the active widget: a small blue dot appears beside its name, and scrolling scrolls inside the widget rather than moving the desk. To leave it, press `Esc` or click an empty part of the desk. - **Select several.** Hold `Shift` and click title bars to build a selection, then move or act on them together. See [Select, move and arrange widgets](https://plexiidesk.com/help/canvas-select-arrange). ## The left side: name and status ### The name Each widget shows an icon and a name. Until you give it a name of your own, the name comes from what is in it, such as the first line of a note or the website a browser is showing. To rename a widget: 1. Double-click its name, or click **Rename** (the pencil) on the right of the title bar. 2. Type the new name. 3. Press `Enter` to keep it, or `Esc` to cancel. Clicking away also keeps it. To go back to the automatic name, delete the name you typed and press `Enter`. ### Status marks Small marks beside the name tell you more about the widget: - **A blue dot** means it is the active widget. - **An amber pin** means it is pinned to a corner of the screen. - **A link icon** means it is a synced copy: its content, name and colour stay the same as its other copies, even on other desks. To make this copy independent, right-click the title bar and choose **Advanced** > **Unlink from synced copies**. See [Duplicate widgets and keep copies in sync](https://plexiidesk.com/help/widget-duplicate-sync). - **An eject button** appears on widgets inside a section. Click it to move the widget out of the section and back onto the desk. ### The Attention bell When the Attention layer is turned on in **Settings** > **AI**, each widget's name has a bell beside it. - **An outlined bell** means the widget is not in Attention. Click it to capture the widget into Attention. You confirm the item before it is added. - **A filled bell** means the widget is already in Attention. Click it to open Attention. - **The circle** beside a filled bell completes that item. Rest the pointer on it to see what it will do, such as **Done**. See [Capture something into Attention](https://plexiidesk.com/help). ## The right side: the buttons The first button is **AI**, a small sparkle. Rest the pointer on it to see what it does for this widget. On many widgets it opens the widget's own AI, for example to draft a sticky's to-dos or propose a table's columns, and nothing changes until you approve it. On others it opens the Plexii panel, with the widget attached when Plexii can read it, so you can ask about it. See [Use a widget's AI button](https://plexiidesk.com/help/widget-ai). The other buttons, from left to right: 1. **Rename** (the pencil) lets you type a new name for the widget. 2. **Link to another widget**: click it, then click another widget to connect the two. See [Link widgets and set up wires](https://plexiidesk.com/help/canvas-link-widgets). 3. **Pin** keeps the widget in one corner of the screen while you move around the desk. Click it and choose **Top left**, **Top right**, **Bottom left** or **Bottom right**. To put it back on the desk, click the pin again and choose **Unpin — return to canvas**. 4. **Minus** and **plus** change the size in steps. Plus makes the widget 50% bigger, up to 1400 by 900 pixels. Minus makes it smaller, down to 180 by 120. Pressing plus and then minus brings it back to the size it was. 5. **Expand** offers two choices. **Larger on desk** grows the widget where it is, so you keep the desk around it. **Focus mode** opens the widget to fill the window and hides everything else. See [Open widgets full screen and side by side](https://plexiidesk.com/help/canvas-focus-mode). 6. **Remove** (the cross) takes the widget off the desk. PlexiDesk asks **Remove from the desk?** first. Inside a section, the Pin, minus and plus buttons are not shown, because the section arranges its widgets. While you are typing a new name, the AI and Rename buttons are hidden. ### Bring back a widget you removed After you remove a widget, a message offers **Undo**. You can also press `⌘` `Z` on a Mac or `Ctrl` `Z` on Windows. The widget comes back where it was, with its links to other widgets. See [Undo and redo](https://plexiidesk.com/help/undo-redo). ## Right-click the title bar Right-click a widget's title bar to open its full menu. What you see depends on the widget, but the menu keeps the same order: - **Add to Attention…**, when the Attention layer is on. - **The widget's own actions.** For example, a Sticky offers **Build with AI** and **Make a checklist**. When a widget has more than two of its own actions, the first is shown and the rest are under **More actions**. - **AI Assist**, on widgets with text. See [AI Assist: rewrite, summarise and translate text](https://plexiidesk.com/help/widget-ai-assist). - **Create & link** makes a new widget already connected to this one: **Automate with an agent**, **Send to a URL**, **Sticky**, **Note**, **Markdown**, **Page**, **File**, **Field**, **Table** or **Color**. On widgets with text, a **Copy into** list below them copies the text into a new Sticky, Note, Markdown or Page. - **Organise**: **Bring to front**, **Pin to corner**, **Recolor** (Yellow, Pink, Blue, Green, Orange or **Clear color**) and **Flag as a decision**. Inside a section, **Move out of section** is here too. - **Share**: **Copy text**, when the widget has text, and **Share...** to share the widget. See [Share a widget, document or file](https://plexiidesk.com/help). - **Advanced**: **Make this a Desk...**, **Duplicate (keep synced)**, **Duplicate (independent copy)**, **Duplicate into another Room / Desk...** (not inside a section), and **Unlink from synced copies** on a synced copy. See [Turn a widget into its own desk](https://plexiidesk.com/help/desk-from-widget). - **Remove**: **Archive** or **Delete**. When several widgets are selected, right-clicking one of them shows actions for the whole selection instead. See [Right-click menus](https://plexiidesk.com/help/right-click-menus). ## Sizes Each widget opens at a size that suits it. A Sticky, a Card and a Field grow taller on their own as you add to them. See [Widget sizes, limits and what some widgets need](https://plexiidesk.com/help/widget-requirements). ## Common questions **Double-clicking the name moved the widget instead.** Double-click directly on the name's text, or click **Rename** (the pencil) instead. **There is no bell beside the name.** The bell only appears when the Attention layer is on. Turn it on in **Settings** > **AI**. See [Attention: everything that needs you](https://plexiidesk.com/help). **The Pin, minus and plus buttons are missing.** The widget is inside a section. Click the eject button beside its name to move it out first. **I removed a widget by mistake.** Click **Undo** in the message that appears, or press `⌘` `Z` on a Mac or `Ctrl` `Z` on Windows. **The arrow keys move around the desk instead of inside my widget.** Click inside the widget first so that it is active. Press `Esc` when you are done to use the arrow keys on the desk again. ## Related tasks - [Add a widget to a desk](https://plexiidesk.com/help/add-a-widget) - [Use a widget's AI button](https://plexiidesk.com/help/widget-ai) - [Link widgets and set up wires](https://plexiidesk.com/help/canvas-link-widgets) - [Select, move and arrange widgets](https://plexiidesk.com/help/canvas-select-arrange) - [Right-click menus](https://plexiidesk.com/help/right-click-menus) - [Add widgets with a single key](https://plexiidesk.com/help/quick-add-keys)