Deckard guide

Also online at deckard.esperinnovations.com.

Everything Deckard does, one topic to a page. The README is the short version. Inside VS Code, Deckard: Open Help shows this guide, with these pages down the side.

Start

• Getting started: requirements, installing, the sample workspace, and the walkthrough.
• Themes and Display: the ten themes, and turning Deckard’s chrome down.

Writing

• Writing notes: tags, people, and links: tags, @people, namespaced entities, front matter, [[links]], embeds, what counts as a note, editor assistance, and templates.
• Types and fields: types over front matter, a type’s rows as a table, fields on pages, and asking Find who leads or owns something.
• Tasks: writing tasks and their dates, priorities, repeats, and steps; the Tasks view, the status bar, and Add Task.
• Daily notes, reviews, and the calendar: today’s note, carrying tasks forward, weekly and monthly reviews, and the calendar.
• Renaming, moving, and parking: renaming notes and headings, extracting a heading, moving lines, and parking what you are not working on.

Finding

• Search: Find in Notes, the search box, Refine, and the query language.
• Search pages: a tag’s page, hub notes, taking results out, editing them all at once, merging tags, and undoing a write.
• Query blocks: a live list of a search’s results inside a note.
• Related notes, the graph, and the outline: what makes a note related, the Notes Graph, and the Outline.

Seeing the whole

• Task board: tasks as columns by status, priority, due date, person, or tag, or as a table.
• Home and Stats: Home’s figures and widgets, the Tags tab, and Stats.
• AI assistants: Suggest steps, and Deckard’s tools for Copilot, Claude Code, and other MCP clients.

Reference

• Commands
• Settings
• Privacy, source safety, and troubleshooting
• For your security reviewer: what Deckard sends, stores, and runs, for approving it at work.
• What Deckard writes: every change it makes to your files, and the setting that controls it.
• Accessibility and keyboard: screen readers, keys, high contrast, zoom, and motion.
• Changelog