Deckard guide

Commands

Command Description
Deckard: Open Dashboard Opens workspace totals, Home, and tags.
Deckard: Open Notes Graph Opens an interactive force-directed map of every note, task, and tag connection.
Deckard: Open Notes Graph Around This Note Opens the Notes Graph around the note in the editor, one hop out, without changing the scope the graph opens with next time.
Deckard: Open Task Board Opens tasks as a Kanban board grouped by status, priority, due date, the person each task is for, or any tag namespace.
Deckard: Open Stats Opens index totals and local view-count statistics.
Deckard: Open Help Opens the quick-start and advanced feature guide.
Deckard: Choose Theme… Previews each theme on the open pages as you move through the list; Enter keeps one, Escape puts back the one in use.
Deckard: Get Started Opens the walkthrough: six steps, each checked off as you do it.
Deckard: What’s New Opens Help at What’s new, the highlights of recent releases.
Deckard: Open Log Opens Deckard’s log, which records how long indexing, ranking, and editor features take.
Deckard: Reindex Workspace Performs a full scan of the workspace Markdown scope, reading and parsing every note again.
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 — the heading and what is written under it — to Home’s Pinned notes. Deckard: Unpin Note from Home removes it.
Deckard: Park Note Parks the note in the editor, or the notes chosen in the Explorer, by writing parked into its front matter’s tags. Deckard: Unpark Note takes it out again.
Deckard: Park Folder… Parks a folder and every note in it, by adding it to deckard.parked.folders; also on a folder’s Deckard menu in the Explorer. Deckard: Unpark Folder… takes it out again.
Deckard: Park Tag… Parks everything a tag finds, by adding it to deckard.parked.tags; also on a tag’s menu on Deckard’s pages and in the Outline. Deckard: Unpark Tag… takes it out again.
Deckard: Tidy Favorites, Pins, and Saved Searches Lists the favorites, pins, and tag-set searches that point at nothing in this workspace any more, and removes them only if you say so. Deckard never removes one of these on its own.
Deckard: Export Favorites, Pins, and Searches Writes what Deckard remembers about this workspace to a JSON file you choose.
Deckard: Import Favorites, Pins, and Searches Reads one back and, after asking, replaces what this workspace remembers with it.
Deckard: Restore Favorites, Pins, and Searches from a Copy Offers the copies Deckard keeps on its own, newest first, and restores the one you pick after asking.
Deckard: Check My Setup Writes up, as a Markdown document, what your settings resolve to in this workspace, what the last scan found and kept out, what the index holds, and whether deckard.me names anyone — with what to do about each thing that is off.
Deckard: Create a Sample Workspace Writes a hands-on tour of Deckard, dated from today, into Deckard’s own storage and opens it, showing its Start here README once the window reloads. Run again, it offers to replace it with a fresh copy.
Deckard: Open Previous Daily Note Opens the nearest daily note before the one in the editor, or before today.
Deckard: Open Daily Note for Date… Opens the daily note for a day named in plain words, such as last friday or oct 3, creating it from the template when there is none.
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 can be done from where the cursor is — complete, edit, or add a task, open Related Notes or the Notes Graph around the note, move the line, and pin the note to Home.
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, field by field; see Editing a whole task.
Deckard: Add Task The same editor, under the name it goes by when the cursor is not on a task: the same shortcut writes a new one where you are.
Deckard: Break into Steps… Writes steps under the task on the cursor’s line, one for each you type; 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, or reopens them when all are done already, writing the ✅ date and the next occurrence of a repeating task. One Undo takes it back.
Deckard: Capture Cmd+Shift+Alt+C on macOS, Ctrl+Shift+Alt+C elsewhere. Adds a task to today’s note without leaving the current editor, completing tags as you type.
Deckard: Capture Under a Heading Adds a task under a heading you choose in any note.
Deckard: Roll Unfinished Tasks Forward Carries the unfinished tasks of the last daily note into today’s, creating today’s note if it is not there yet.
Deckard: New Note from Template Creates a note from a template in your templates folder, asking for its title and anything the template asks.
Deckard: Copy MCP Server Setup Copies the command that adds Deckard’s MCP server to Claude Code, offering to turn the server on first.
Deckard: Reset MCP Server Token Makes a new MCP server token, so every copied setup stops working.
Deckard: Move to… Moves the line, task, or selection under another heading or into a new note, and leaves a link behind.
Deckard: Extract Heading Moves a heading section into a newly named note and leaves a [[link]] to it.
Deckard: Open a Tag’s Search Page… Opens a tag’s search page, asking which tag when none is supplied.
Deckard: Open Search Page Opens a search page listing every note, ready for a search.
Deckard: Insert Query Block… Writes a live query block of a saved or recent search, or one you type, at the cursor.
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: Search Notes and Tasks Opens a search page on a Deckard query, such as (tag = #project/atlas AND task = open) OR text ~ "vendor".
Deckard: Link Current Heading to Entity Adds a person, project, topic, organization, or meeting tag to the current heading.
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: Merge Tag… Merges one indexed tag into another that already exists, after showing what the merge will change.
Deckard: Rename Heading Renames the heading the cursor is in and rewrites every [[Note#Heading]] link that named it.
Deckard: Undo Last Change Puts every note back as it was before 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 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 section the cursor is in, or the Outline heading it is run on, and opens that section’s sub-headings.
Deckard: Unfold All Sections Unfolds the note again after Focus Section.
Deckard: Filter Outline by Tag… Shows only the Outline headings that carry a tag, or a tag under it, until it is cleared.
Deckard: Clear Outline Tag Filter Shows every heading in the Outline again.

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