Commands

Command	Description
Deckard: Open Home	Opens Home, with workspace totals, your widgets, and the Tags tab. It was called Open Dashboard; type home.
Deckard: Go to…	`Cmd`+`Shift`+`Alt`+`P` on macOS, `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`Alt`+`P` elsewhere, or Go to… at the foot of the menu DECKARD ▾ drops at the top of any page. Lists every page, as the top of the Context view does, and opens the one you choose; see Finding your way.
Deckard: Open Notes Graph	Opens a map of every note, task, and tag connection.
Deckard: Open Task Board	Opens tasks as a Kanban board grouped by status, priority, due date, person, or any tag namespace.
Deckard: Open Stats	Opens index totals and local view-count statistics.
Deckard: Open Calendar	Opens the calendar across the editor, each day listing its tasks; see Calendar.
Deckard: Open Help	Opens this guide inside VS Code, its pages down the side; see Reading this guide.
Deckard: Choose Pages…	Picks which of Deckard’s pages the Context view keeps, as icons in its title bar or as a list; also in the title bar’s ⋯, with List Pages in Context and Move Pages to the Title Bar; see Finding your way.
Deckard: Choose Theme…	Previews each theme on the open pages; Enter keeps one, Escape goes back.
Deckard: Toggle Zen	Turns Zen on or off on every Deckard page, as the Zen checkbox in a page’s ⋯ does; see Zen.
Deckard: Choose Date Format…	Shows today in each format; Custom… says it back as you type; see Dates.
Deckard: Get Started	Opens the walkthrough: six steps, each checked off as you do it.
Deckard: What’s New	Opens Help at Changelog: the highlights of recent releases, newest first.
Deckard: Open Log	Opens Deckard’s log, including timings.
Deckard: Reindex Workspace	Reads and parses every note again.
Deckard: Choose What Deckard Reads…	Chooses a notes folder, leaves folders out, or pauses Deckard in this workspace; see A code repository with no notes folder.
Deckard: Pause in This Workspace	Stops Deckard reading and writing in this workspace until Deckard: Resume in This Workspace.
Deckard: Choose Editor Preset…	Chooses what Deckard draws in the editor: Full, Tasks, Writing, or Off; see `deckard.editor.preset`.
Deckard: Create Hub Note for Tag…	Lists the tags no hub note describes yet, most used first, and creates a hub note for the one chosen; for a tag a type has rows of, it opens the new note’s form with the tag.
Deckard: New Type…	Asks a type’s name and what its rows are, writes `Types/<Name>.md`, and opens the type form on it.
Deckard: Edit Type…	Opens the type form on the type note in front, the type of the row note in front, or a type chosen: add, change, move, or remove its fields without writing the table. Also on a type note’s title bar and lens, and Edit type… in ⋯ on a type’s page.
Deckard: Create Type from Tags…	Lists the tag namespaces, the people, and the `type:` values in use, then the fields their notes already write, and writes a type in `Types/` from the ones chosen. Also Create type from #team… in ⋯ on a tag’s page.
Deckard: New Note from Type…	Lists your types, then opens a form for a new note of the one chosen: its folder, title, tag, and each field, written when you choose Create the note. With no types, it offers Create Type from Tags….
Deckard: Edit Fields…	Opens the same form on the note in the editor, when it is a row of a type: its fields as the note holds them, what other notes set on it, and Save changes, which writes only the fields you changed, as one change. A note with no type says so, and offers New Note from Type….
Deckard: Create Daily Note	`Cmd`+`Shift`+`Alt`+`D` on macOS, `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`Alt`+`D` elsewhere. Creates or opens today’s note.
Deckard: Pin Note to Home	Pins the note the cursor is in to Home’s Pinned notes. Deckard: Unpin Note from Home removes it.
Deckard: Park Note	Parks the note in the editor, or notes chosen in the Explorer, by adding `parked` to its front-matter tags. Deckard: Unpark Note reverses it.
Deckard: Park Folder…	Parks a folder by adding it to `deckard.parked.folders`; also on a folder’s Deckard menu in the Explorer. Deckard: Unpark Folder… reverses it; the palette lists it while a folder is parked by name.
Deckard: Park Tag…	Parks everything a tag finds by adding it to `deckard.parked.tags`; also on a tag’s menu. Deckard: Unpark Tag… reverses it; the palette lists it while `deckard.parked.tags` names a tag.
Deckard: Manage Favorites, Pins, and Searches…	Lists the upkeep of what Deckard remembers about this workspace: Tidy… removes favorites, pins, and tag-set searches that point at nothing, if you confirm; Export… writes it all to a JSON file; Import… reads one back and, after asking, replaces it; Restore from a Copy… takes back one of Deckard’s automatic copies, after asking.
Deckard: Export Tasks as Calendar…	Writes your dated tasks to a calendar file to import into a calendar app; see Tasks in your calendar app.
Deckard: Check My Setup	Writes a Markdown report of your resolved settings, what the last scan found and kept out, what the index holds, and whether `deckard.me` names anyone, with fixes.
Deckard: Create a Work Sample	Writes a week of a team lead’s notes, dated from today, into Deckard’s storage and opens it. Run again, it offers a fresh copy.
Deckard: Open Previous Daily Note	Opens the nearest daily note before the one in the editor, or before today.
Deckard: Open Next Daily Note	Opens the nearest daily note after the one in the editor, or after today.
Deckard: Note Actions…	The Deckard button in a note’s title bar: lists what the editor’s Deckard submenu lists, in the same order, for the cursor’s position: the task on the line, the heading, the note (open as a page, Related Notes, the Notes Graph, Move to…, copy, tags to front matter), then pin and park.
Deckard: Open Weekly Note	Creates or opens this week’s note, `week-2026-09-13-2026-09-19.md`, with its review written in.
Deckard: Open Monthly Note	Creates or opens this month’s note, `month-september-2026.md`, with its review written in.
Deckard: Write a Review	Writes, or brings up to date, the review in this week’s or this month’s note.
Deckard: Edit Task	`Cmd`+`Shift`+`Alt`+`T` on macOS, `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`Alt`+`T` elsewhere. Edits the task on the cursor’s line; see Editing a whole task.
Deckard: Add Task	`Cmd`+`Shift`+`Alt`+`N` on macOS, `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`Alt`+`N` elsewhere, from anywhere, and Edit Task’s shortcut when the cursor is not on a task. The same editor on a new task, written into the note you are in, or today’s note when none is open, or the hub note of a tag in its words, or another note or a heading you choose; see Adding a task.
Deckard: Break into Steps…	Writes steps under the task on the cursor’s line; see Breaking a task into steps.
Deckard: Toggle Task Done	`Cmd`+`Shift`+`Alt`+`X` on macOS, `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`Alt`+`X` elsewhere. Completes the tasks under every cursor and selection, whatever their status, or reopens them if all are done, writing the ✅ date and a repeating task’s next occurrence.
Deckard: Set Task Status…	Sets any status on the task on the cursor’s line; also on the editor’s right-click menu and a task’s menu in the Tasks view; see Task statuses.
Deckard: Snooze Task Until…	Puts the task on the cursor’s line off until tomorrow, next week, or a day you type, by writing its start date; also on the editor’s right-click menu, a task’s menu in the Tasks view, and a Task board card’s ⋯ (key z); see Snoozing a task.
Deckard: Edit Task Statuses…	Opens a page to edit `deckard.tasks.statuses`: each status’s character, name, type, and icon; see Editing the statuses.
Deckard: Move Status Tags into Checkboxes…	Writes each `#status/…` tag, which Deckard no longer reads as a status, as the character of the status it meant, such as `- [ ] Draft #status/doing` to `- [/] Draft`, and searches that name one by the status, after a preview; see Moving status tags into checkboxes.
Deckard: Answer Question…	Writes an answer under a question, typed or taken from the line offered for it; with no question chosen, it lists the open ones first. Also on a question’s row in the Questions view, and above a question in the editor; see Questions.
Deckard: Roll Unfinished Tasks Forward	Carries the last daily note’s unfinished tasks into today’s, creating it if needed.
Deckard: Reschedule Overdue Tasks…	Dates the overdue tasks at once, saying how full each day is; see Tasks view.
Deckard: Edit What the Tasks View Lists…	Opens the Task Board on what the Tasks view lists, to change it and keep it with Save to Tasks view; see Editing what the Tasks view lists.
Deckard: Clear the Tasks View’s Search	Lets the Tasks view list every open task again.
Deckard: Group Tasks By…	Chooses the Tasks view’s groups: due status, priority, status, person, or a tag namespace.
Deckard: Sort Tasks By…	Orders each of the Tasks view’s groups: by rank, created or updated date, or title.
Deckard: Sort Hubs By…	Orders each level of the Hubs view: by name, or What’s new, the hubs with the most new since you last opened their page first; see The Hubs view.
Deckard: New Note from Template	Creates a note from a template in your templates folder.
Deckard: New Note from Template Here…	The same, in the folder right-clicked in the Explorer, from its Deckard menu.
Deckard: Exclude from Deckard	On a folder’s Deckard menu in the Explorer: leaves the folder out of the index. Deckard: Include in Deckard brings a folder left out by name back.
Deckard: Copy MCP Server Setup	Copies the command that adds Deckard’s MCP server to Claude Code, and offers to turn the server on when it is off. Listed while `deckard.assistantTools` is on.
Deckard: Reset MCP Server Token	Makes a new MCP server token, invalidating copied setups. Listed while the server is on.
Deckard: Move to…	Moves the line, task, or selection under another heading or into a new note, and leaves a link behind. On a heading, moves the heading and everything under it.
Deckard: Open Note as Page	The unicorn button in a note’s title bar: opens the note in the editor on a page of its own, its links, tags, tasks, and query blocks working; see Reading a note as a page.
Deckard: Copy as Plain Markdown	Copies the note, or the selection, with its embeds, query results, and links written out; see Copying a note for elsewhere.
Deckard: Extract Heading	Moves a heading section into a newly named note and leaves a `[[link]]` to it.
Deckard: Find in Notes	`Cmd`+`Shift`+`Alt`+`F` on macOS, `Ctrl`+`Shift`+`Alt`+`F` elsewhere. Searches notes, tasks, tags, and saved searches as you type; see Find.
Deckard: Open Beside in Find	`Cmd`+`Enter` (`Ctrl`+`Enter` elsewhere) in Find: opens the highlighted result beside the editor, keeping Find open.
Deckard: Insert a Link from Find	`Alt`+`Enter` in Find: links the highlighted result where the cursor was.
Deckard: List Actions in Find	`Cmd`+`.` (`Ctrl`+`.` elsewhere) in Find: lists everything the highlighted result can do.
Deckard: Open Search Page	Opens a search page, ready for a search.
Deckard: Open Search Page…	Opens a search page on a search, such as `#project/atlas AND is:open`; with nothing typed, a page of every note.
Deckard: Move Inline Tags to Front Matter	Moves explicit tags from the active note into merged note-level front matter.
Deckard: Rename Tag	Searches indexed tags and replaces the selected tag in its source notes.
Deckard: Rename Heading	Renames the heading the cursor is in and rewrites every `[[Note#Heading]]` link that named it.
Deckard: Undo Last Change	Reverts Deckard’s last workspace-wide write, such as a tag rename or merge.
Deckard: Follow Cursor in Outline	Selects the Outline heading containing the editor cursor. The Outline title’s ⋯ menu has the same control.
Deckard: Stop Following Cursor in Outline	Leaves the Outline selection where you put it.
Deckard: Focus Section	Folds the rest of the note away from the current section or Outline heading.
Deckard: Unfold All Sections	Unfolds the note again after Focus Section.
Deckard: Filter Outline by Tag…	Shows only Outline headings carrying a tag, or a tag under it.
Deckard: Clear Outline Tag Filter	Shows every heading in the Outline again.

Not in the palette

These commands do what they did, from where you meet the job; the palette leaves them out, since another door does the same:

Merge Tag…: rename a tag to one that already exists, which merges them after a preview, or use Merge in Stats.
Open Notes Graph Around This Note and Open Related Notes: Deckard: Note Actions…, from the Deckard button in a note’s title bar, the editor’s Deckard submenu, or a note page’s ⋯.
Insert Query Block…: Query block in the / menu, or Copy as live query block in a search page’s Export.
Import Statuses from Obsidian Tasks: Import from Obsidian Tasks on the page Deckard: Edit Task Statuses… opens.
Open Daily Note for Date…: type a day in Find, such as last friday.
Open a Tag’s Search Page…: select a tag anywhere Deckard shows one, or type it in Find.
Tag Heading with a Person or Project…: the editor’s Refactor… menu, on a note’s heading that carries no such tag, or the editor’s Deckard submenu and Deckard: Note Actions… under any heading.
Open Related Notes Ranking: a page for tuning Related Notes; bind a key to it in Keyboard Shortcuts, then press it with the cursor in a tagged entry.
Tidy, Export, Import, and Restore for favorites, pins, and searches: rows of Deckard: Manage Favorites, Pins, and Searches….

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