Customizing a AI desktop often means combining built-in widgets with several single-purpose apps. Kimi Work offers a different approach. You can describe the Widget you want, create and refine it through conversation, and keep it on your AI Dashboard or Pin it to the desktop.
What is Kimi Work and Kimi Work Dashboard?
Kimi Work is Moonshot AI’s desktop AI agent for macOS and Windows. Its Dashboard is a feature that can be considered as AI dashboard generator and a cross-session space where you can organize the interactive AI generated Widgets you create through conversation. A Widget is an interactive visual component created for a specific need, such as checking the weather or tracking a countdown. The Dashboard gives these Widgets a persistent home, so they remain available after the original conversation ends. Instead of losing useful results across separate sessions, you can bring them together into one personalized page built around what matters to you.
Key Features of the Kimi AI Dashboard Generator
The Kimi Work Dashboard is more than a place to generate a desktop widget. It lets you shape and refine widgets around your needs over time. You decide what each widget displays, how it is arranged, and whether to keep it in the dashboard or pin it to the desktop.
From fixed templates to on-demand creation
Traditional desktop widgets often require you to choose from preset templates. Kimi Work starts with your specific needs instead, allowing you to define the widget’s content, information hierarchy, and visual direction. You do not have to change your workflow to fit a predefined feature.
From starting over to targeted iteration
The first version of a widget does not need to be perfect. You can select a specific area and adjust its text, color, size, or layout without describing the entire widget again. Each revision builds on the existing result, so you can continue refining it step by step.
Flexible use across the dashboard and desktop
When you want to view several widgets together, you can save them to the dashboard. When you need to keep track of a specific widget while working in other applications, you can pin it as a standalone desktop window. Choose how to place each widget based on how often you need to view it and what you are working on.
Turn a one-time generation into a long-term view
Once saved to the dashboard, a widget can be revisited and modified over time. As your needs change, you can update its content, adjust its information hierarchy, or rearrange its layout. Gradually, the dashboard becomes a personalized information space built around the things you care about.
AI Dashboard builder vs traditional desktop widgets
Both approaches keep useful information within reach, but they differ in how Widgets are created, refined, organized, and placed on the desktop.
| Dimension | Traditional desktop widgets | Kimi Work Dashboard |
|---|---|---|
| Creation | Choose from the widgets available in the system or app | Describe a widget built around your use case |
| Refinement | Adjust predefined settings and controls | Annotate a specific area and request changes in natural language |
| Organization | Manage widgets through their respective systems or apps | Keep generated widgets together and available across conversations |
| Desktop access | Place widgets using the options provided by the system or app | Keep widgets in the Dashboard or pin one as a desktop window |
Traditional widgets remain useful when a ready-made component already covers your needs. Kimi Work Dashboard offers another option when you want more control over the information, layout, or purpose of a Widget. The two approaches can also work together: use traditional widgets for familiar utilities and Kimi Work for personalized views you want to refine and revisit over time.
How to create desktop widgets with Kimi Work
The workflow is designed for both macOS and Windows. You start with a description, then refine and place the result.
Step 1: Download and open Kimi Work
Download and open the Kimi Work desktop app. Go to the Kimi Work section, click Dashboard, and then click Create in Chat to enter the workspace and create your first widget.
Step 2: Create your first AI Widget
Start with a clear use case. Enter a prompt that explains the widget’s purpose, the information it should display, and the desired visual style. Then click Send. For example:
Step 3: Annotate and refine the result
Review the Widget, then use annotation mode to select the area you want to change and describe the adjustment. Repeat as needed until the Widget works the way you want.
Step 4: Pin the Widget or keep it in your Dashboard
When the Widget is ready, keep it in your Dashboard for future access. You can also Pin it as an independent desktop window when you want it to remain visible during other work.
Use cases for your personal AI Dashboard
Manage daily chores and personal habits
Create a to-do Widget for weekly shopping, cleaning, and bill payments. Add a habit tracker to monitor goals such as reading, exercising, or going to bed earlier. You can Pin the day’s most important tasks to your desktop while keeping everything else in the Dashboard.
Keep track of personal interests and important dates
Create weather and countdown Widgets for a concert, next trip or anniversary. Use another Widget to organize related plans and preparations. As the date approaches, continue refining the content so the most important information stays easy to find.
Build a countdown and task Dashboard for a product launch
Before a product launch, create a progress Widget that shows how many tasks remain, along with current priorities, unresolved issues, and key milestones. Pin the countdown to your desktop while keeping the complete task view in the Dashboard for a quick overview of overall progress.
Create a focused market overview
If you follow financial assets and indicators every day, organize them into a compact market overview and Pin it to your desktop for quick access. Arrange the information hierarchy around your research habits so important indicators are easier to find. Verify financial data through appropriate sources before making decisions.
Organize the results of an experiment
Create an experiment Dashboard to record test results, usage data, recent notes, and the current project status. Place each type of information in a focused Widget, then organize them in one Dashboard. When you return to the experiment, you can pick up where you left off instead of searching through files and conversations again.
Who is the Kimi Work Dashboard for?
The Kimi Work Dashboard is designed for people who need to monitor a set of information over time while retaining control over the content, layout, and presentation. It is especially useful for:
People who need key information to stay visible: If you check the same information every day, you can bring it together in one dashboard. This gives you a consistent information hub without repeatedly searching through conversations, files, or different apps.
People who do not want to be limited by fixed templates: Traditional tools often require you to adapt to predefined fields and layouts. With the Kimi Work Dashboard, you can describe what you need first and refine the content over time. Start with a simple version, then add fields, change the order, or adjust how the information is presented.
People who regularly refine their information views: The importance of different information can change as a task progresses. You can highlight what matters most at the current stage and reduce the visibility of information that no longer needs immediate attention.
People who frequently switch between tasks: If you manage several projects or personal plans at the same time, separate dashboards can help preserve the context for each one. Every dashboard can be organized around a specific set of goals, so you do not need to explain the background again or rebuild the page whenever you switch tasks.
People who prefer visual information: For users who do not want to rely only on long documents, spreadsheets, or multiple windows, widgets and dashboards provide a more visual way to access information. Status updates, dates, progress, and priorities can be arranged around the way you prefer to review them.
Overall, the Kimi Work Dashboard is best suited to people who want to turn a set of information into a long-term workspace rather than generate something only once. If you only need a one-time list or a simple reminder, your system’s built-in tools may already be enough. If you want to keep refining and reusing a personalized information view, the dashboard offers greater flexibility.
Kimi Work is more than a dashboard
The dashboard lets you turn frequently viewed information into widgets and organize them on a single page. However, it is only one part of Kimi Work. As a desktop AI agent, Kimi Work can also work with local files, operate a browser, pursue complex goals over multiple rounds, and run recurring tasks on a schedule.
Work directly with local files and folders
After linking a local folder to a project, Kimi Work can read its files and write organized, analyzed, or generated results directly to the selected location. It can also run code and commands, making it useful for workflows that involve working across multiple documents, spreadsheets, or code files. Operations that require permission will request confirmation based on the permission mode you select.
Automate browser tasks with Kimi WebBridge
After connecting Kimi WebBridge, Kimi Work can navigate pages in your signed-in browser, click elements, complete forms, and download files. This reduces repetitive clicking, copying, and pasting in workflows that move between websites and local files.
Schedule one-time or recurring tasks
Kimi Work can run tasks on a schedule. You can create a one-time task for a specific date and time or set up a task that repeats daily, weekly, or monthly. Once saved, the task runs at the scheduled time, making it suitable for work that involves regularly collecting information, organizing it, and producing recurring deliverables.
Keep complex goals moving with Goal Mode
For tasks that cannot be completed in a single conversation, Goal Mode lets you define the desired outcome, constraints, and acceptance criteria. Kimi Work breaks the goal into multiple steps, continues working toward it, and checks its progress along the way. You can review the current status, provide additional information, or adjust the direction without explaining the full context again in every round.
Connect more tools with plugins
Plugins extend Kimi Work with access to external data and third-party services. After installing a plugin and completing any required authorization, you can invoke it directly in a conversation, reducing the need to switch manually between different applications. Features and authorization requirements vary by plugin, so review the requested access before using one.
The dashboard is designed primarily for organizing and continuously reviewing information, while these additional capabilities focus more on executing tasks and delivering completed results. Read the complete Kimi Work introduction to learn more about Goal Mode, scheduled tasks, plugins, local file handling, and browser automation.
Conclusion
Kimi Work Dashboard gives desktop widgets a conversational starting point. You describe what you want, review the rendered Widget, and annotate the parts that need adjustment. You can keep the result across conversations or Pin an individual Widget to your desktop. Whether you want a weather view, a countdown, a task panel, or a custom personal Dashboard, Kimi Work helps you create a page around the information you care about.