Widgets
Widgets let you build custom panels and tools inside AIDEN.
This is where the workspace starts becoming deeply personal: instead of adapting your workflow to fixed screens, you give repeated needs their own surface.
What widgets are good for
Use widgets when you want:
- a project-specific utility — a release checklist, an environment switcher, a links hub for the services this project touches
- a compact dashboard — the three or four numbers or statuses you check every day, in one panel
- a persistent helper surface — reference material, prompts, or commands you keep reaching for
- a custom workflow panel — a view shaped around how you move work, not a generic layout
Why they matter
Every serious workflow develops repeated friction — the tab you keep reopening, the status you keep checking, the list you keep rebuilding. Widgets turn that friction into reusable tooling that lives inside the product, next to the work it supports.
Best practice
Do not build widgets just because you can. Build one when a repeated pattern is genuinely slowing you down and deserves its own surface. One widget you use daily beats five you built once.