Phi Help

Appearance

New Tab & Widgets ​

Phi replaces the standard new tab with a personalized home page. Every new tab gives you a greeting, a single box to search or ask, and a grid of widgets you arrange yourself. It follows your theme and light/dark choice automatically.

Your new tab ​

  • A greeting — a personalized welcome that changes over time, drawn from what Phi knows about you. You can share it or chat with your assistant about it.
  • One box to search or ask — type to search the web, ask your assistant a question, or go straight to a URL, all from the same place. You can attach a tab or a file and bring Skills into the conversation.
  • Quick access — reach recent conversations, your widgets, and the Skills library from the menu in the top-right corner.

Because the search box is wired to your assistant, the new tab is often the fastest place to start something — a search, a question, or a task — without opening a separate chat first. See Meet your assistant for what it can do.

Widgets ​

Widgets are small cards you pin to the new tab — a clock, the weather, your most-visited sites, a focus timer, and more. You choose which ones appear and where they sit.

Built-in widgets ​

  • At a glance — Clock (local time and date for any time zone), Weather (current conditions for a location), Quote of the day, and Image of the day (an ambient image drawn from your recent memory themes).
  • Tools — Pomodoro focus timer, Currency converter, and a Quick translator.
  • Shortcuts — Top sites (the sites you visit most) and GitHub stars (the star trend for a repo).
  • Your activity — Recent reads (pages you read recently), Hot posts (trending items from sources like Hacker News or Reddit), and a Daily report and Weekly report summarizing what you have been doing.

Adding and arranging widgets ​

Open the widget library from the Widgets menu in the top-right corner, or the Custom button that appears as you scroll. From there:

  • Drag a widget onto the page to pin it.
  • Use a pinned widget's menu to Move & Resize it, Refresh its data, Edit it, or Delete it.

Your layout is saved on your device, so the new tab looks the same each time you open it.

Widgets that know you ​

The widget library suggests a few widgets to start with, based on what Phi remembers about you, and some widgets personalize their content the same way — for example, surfacing pages you actually return to. You can also ask your assistant to create a custom widget for you, or refine an existing one, right from a conversation.

This builds on the same local-first memory as the rest of Phi: what widgets draw on stays on your device and under your control. See Privacy & Your Data for the details.

What's next ​