return{
{
  "nvimdev/dashboard-nvim",
  lazy = false, -- As https://github.com/nvimdev/dashboard-nvim/pull/450, dashboard-nvim shouldn't be lazy-loaded to properly handle stdin.
  opts = function()
  --   local logo = [[
	 --  ▐ ▄ ▄▄▄ .       ▌ ▐·▪  • ▌ ▄ ·.  
	 -- •█▌▐█▀▄.▀·▪     ▪█·█▌██ ·██ ▐███▪ 
	 -- ▐█▐▐▌▐▀▀▪▄ ▄█▀▄ ▐█▐█•▐█·▐█ ▌▐▌▐█· 
	 -- ██▐█▌▐█▄▄▌▐█▌.▐▌ ███ ▐█▌██ ██▌▐█▌ 
	 -- ▀▀ █▪ ▀▀▀  ▀█▄▀▪. ▀  ▀▀▀▀▀  █▪▀▀▀ 
  --   ]]

    local logo = [[
                                                                     
       ████ ██████           █████      ██                     
      ███████████             █████                             
      █████████ ███████████████████ ███   ███████████   
     █████████  ███    █████████████ █████ ██████████████   
    █████████ ██████████ █████████ █████ █████ ████ █████   
  ███████████ ███    ███ █████████ █████ █████ ████ █████  
 ██████  █████████████████████ ████ █████ █████ ████ ██████ 
    ]]

    logo = string.rep("\n", 8) .. logo .. "\n\n"

local opts = {
  theme = "doom",
  hide = {
    statusline = false,
  },
  config = {
    header = vim.split(logo, "\n"),
    center = {
      {
        action = function()
          require("telescope.builtin").find_files()
        end,
        desc = " Find File",
        icon = " ",
        key = "f"
      },
      { action = "ene | startinsert", desc = " New File", icon = " ", key = "n" },
      {
        action = function()
          require("telescope.builtin").oldfiles()
        end,
        desc = " Recent Files",
        icon = " ",
        key = "r"
      },
      {
        action = function()
          require("telescope.builtin").live_grep()
        end,
        desc = " Find Text",
        icon = " ",
        key = "g"
      },
      {
        action = function()
          require("telescope.builtin").find_files({ cwd = vim.fn.stdpath("config") })
        end,
        desc = " Search Neovim files",
        icon = " ",
        key = "c"
      },
      { action = 'lua require("persistence").load()', desc = " Restore Session", icon = " ", key = "s" },
      { action = "LazyExtras", desc = " Lazy Extras", icon = " ", key = "x" },
      { action = "Lazy", desc = " Lazy", icon = "󰒲 ", key = "l" },
      { action = function() vim.api.nvim_input("<cmd>qa<cr>") end, desc = " Quit", icon = " ", key = "q" },
    },
    footer = function()
      local stats = require("lazy").stats()
      local ms = (math.floor(stats.startuptime * 100 + 0.5) / 100)
      return { "⚡ Neovim loaded " .. stats.loaded .. "/" .. stats.count .. " plugins in " .. ms .. "ms" }
    end,
  },
}

    for _, button in ipairs(opts.config.center) do
      button.desc = button.desc .. string.rep(" ", 43 - #button.desc)
      button.key_format = "  %s"
    end

    -- open dashboard after closing lazy
    if vim.o.filetype == "lazy" then
      vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("WinClosed", {
        pattern = tostring(vim.api.nvim_get_current_win()),
        once = true,
        callback = function()
          vim.schedule(function()
            vim.api.nvim_exec_autocmds("UIEnter", { group = "dashboard" })
          end)
        end,
      })
    end

    return opts
  end,
},
{
  "folke/persistence.nvim",
  event = "BufReadPre",
  opts = {},
  -- stylua: ignore
  keys = {
    { "<leader>qs", function() require("persistence").load() end, desc = "Restore Session" },
    { "<leader>ql", function() require("persistence").load({ last = true }) end, desc = "Restore Last Session" },
    { "<leader>qd", function() require("persistence").stop() end, desc = "Don't Save Current Session" },
      { "<leader>db", "<cmd>:Dashboard<CR>", desc = "Dashboard"}
  },
}
}