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.
• The ⋮ menu, in the top-right corner, opens Widgets and the Skills library, and holds Restore hidden prompts.

Because the search box is wired to your assistant, the new tab is often the fastest place to start something, whether 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.

Opening the Widgets panel

Everything about widgets happens in the Widgets panel. Open it by choosing Widgets from the ⋮ menu in the top-right corner, or by scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking Custom.

The first time Custom is on screen, a hint points at it: Create your own widgets here. Once you click Dismiss or open the panel, it does not come back.

Suggested widgets

Phi does not show a fixed catalog to browse. Instead, the panel offers a few suggestions picked from what Phi remembers about you, each titled for you. They are drawn from a set of built-in widget types, for example a clock, the weather, a Pomodoro focus timer, a currency converter, your top sites, pages you read recently, an RSS feed, the stars and forks of a GitHub repository, and a daily or weekly report of what you have been doing.

Click Refresh on a suggestion to swap it for a different one.

Adding and arranging widgets

1. Click Install on a suggestion. It joins your widgets in the panel straight away.
2. Drag it onto the page to pin it, or choose Add to page from its menu.

While the panel is open you can rearrange the page: drag a pinned widget to move it, drag its edge to resize it, or drag it back onto the panel to take it off the page.

A pinned widget's menu has:

• Refresh, fetch its data again. Only widgets that load data have it.
• Edit, describe a change and Phi rewrites the widget for you.
• Delete, take the widget off the page. It stays in the panel, so you can add it again later.
• Delete ALL, take every widget off the page, after you confirm.

To get rid of a widget for good, choose Delete from its menu inside the panel. Phi asks you to confirm first.

Your layout is saved in this browser on your device, so the new tab looks the same each time you open it. It does not sync to your other devices.

A suggested widget on an empty new tab

If you have no widgets of your own yet, Phi may pin one for you, marked Suggested. It draws on your Memory, so a brand-new install may not show one for a while.

A suggested widget you leave alone is replaced the next day by a different one. To decide what happens to it:

• Keep makes it yours and stops the daily rotation. Moving, resizing, or editing it counts as keeping it too.
• ✕ removes this widget. The card briefly shows Removing, with Undo if you change your mind. A different suggestion can still appear on a later day.
• Stop suggesting, shown while the card says Removing, turns suggested widgets off.

Making your own widget

Click + (Add widget) in the panel and describe the widget you want. Phi builds it and shows you the result before you save it. If you are not happy with a version, regenerate it. To change a widget later, choose Edit from its menu.

Widgets are generated by AI and can occasionally be inaccurate.

Widgets that know you

Suggestions, and some widgets' content, are personalized from what Phi remembers about you, for example by surfacing pages you actually return to.

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. When a widget needs AI, for example to write your daily or weekly report, to make the image of the day, or to build or edit a widget, the content that step needs is sent to a model, as with any other AI request. See Privacy & Your Data for where that goes and how to keep more of it on your Mac.

What's next

• Meet your assistant, Memory, talking to it, and Skills.
• Privacy & Your Data, where your data lives and how to stay in control.