What Deckard writes
Every change Deckard makes to your files, what starts it, and the setting that controls it. Deckard writes nothing on its own except the three marked automatic. A change that reaches more than one note is shown first, and Deckard: Undo Last Change takes the last one back.
In your notes
| Write | Started by | Controlled by |
| — | — | — |
| A task’s box ticked or cleared, with its ✅ date, or [completion:: …] on a Dataview-format line | A checkbox on any page, the Tasks view, the board, a query block’s preview, or Deckard: Toggle Task Done | |
| A repeating task’s next occurrence, on a new line beside it | Completing a repeating task | The task’s own repeat rule |
| A task’s dates, priority, status character, assignee, or steps | The task editor, a board drag or card menu, the Tasks view’s drops, Reschedule All… | deckard.tasks.metadataFormat for a task with no metadata yet |
| A new task at the cursor, or at the end of today’s note or another, or under a heading | Deckard: Add Task, the Task Board’s Add task or a column’s +, Find’s Add to today’s note | Asks first in a code repository with no notes folder; see Getting started |
| A question, - [?] …, in today’s note, under its Questions heading when it has one | Find’s Ask it in today’s note | |
| An answer, - Answer: …, under a question; a dropped question’s box, [?] to [-] | Answer…, Use as answer, and Drop in the Questions view, Home’s Open questions, and the lens above a question; the assistant’s answer tool | Not written when the question’s line changed since Deckard read it |
| ` (see [[Note#Heading]]) at the end of the line being written | **Link it here**, on an older line that line is like, in its hover or in Context's Written before | |
| A waiting task, - [w] … 📅 day 👤 @sam, under a line of today's note that names one person and a day to come | **Track** on its lens or lightbulb, or **Track as waiting on Sam…**, which opens the task editor first | deckard.editor.trackPromises; not written when the line changed, is tracked already, or the note is no longer today's |
| A line, dated, with a link back to where it was written, - 2026-10-14: … ([[2026-10-14#Org news]]), as the last item under a hub note's Notes heading, which is made at the end of the hub when it has none; or under a heading you choose | **Add this line to FX’s notes** or **File under…** on a line's lightbulb | deckard.links.style for the link |
| A field of a row's hub note, its front-matter key alone changing: lead: “@priya-natarajan”, or a value added to a field that holds several | **Set FX’s lead to Priya Natarajan** or **Add Swaps to FX’s owns** on a line's lightbulb, from the phrases a type's Words column lists | Not written when the line changed, or the field no longer holds what the action said it did |
| A tag added, renamed, or merged on every line that carries it | Rename Tag, **Merge** in Stats, a search page's edit, **Add a tag** | Shown first when it reaches several notes |
| [[links]] rewritten to a renamed note or heading | Renaming a note in the Explorer, or Deckard: Rename Heading | |
| A mention turned into a link | **Link mentions** on a note's first line, or **Link** in the Context view | deckard.links.style: [[Name]] or Name |
| A section moved out to a new note, leaving a link | Deckard: Extract Heading | |
| A task, lines, or a heading's section moved under another heading or to the end of a note, leaving a link | **Move to…** | deckard.links.style, for a section's link |
| The front-matter keys you changed, set or cleared, every other line left as written, as one change | **Save changes** in the [form that edits a typed note's fields](/databases.html#editing-fields), from **Edit fields…** or Deckard: Edit Fields… | Not written when the front matter changed since the form opened |
| A field's key, or a select's option, renamed in every note that writes it, and in the type's table | **Rename field everywhere…** or **Rename option everywhere…** on a [type's rows](/databases.html#a-types-rows) | Shown first |
| A field's value, or a type's Kind cell, changed in place | A quick fix on a [marked field](/databases.html#in-the-editor), such as **Change to @omar (Omar Haddad)** or **Allow Area or System** | deckard.editor.linkDiagnostics |
| tags: [parked] in front matter | **Park Note** | **Unpark Note** removes it |
| Tags moved into front matter | Deckard: Move Inline Tags to Front Matter | |
| A task added or changed for an AI assistant | The assistant's tools, after you approve the exact line | deckard.assistantTools` |
New files
| File | Started by | Controlled by |
|---|---|---|
| Today’s daily note, from its template | Opening or creating today’s note, Add Task, rollover | Daily.md in deckard.templatesFolder, deckard.notesFolder |
| Unfinished tasks carried into a new daily note (automatic, when the note is made) | Creating a daily note | deckard.dailyNote.rollover, off by default |
| A weekly or monthly note, and a review written into it (automatic, when the note is made) | Opening the week’s or month’s note | deckard.periodicNote.review; Weekly.md and Monthly.md |
| A note from a template | Deckard: New Note from Template |
deckard.templatesFolder |
| Three starter templates | Create Starter Templates, offered when the templates folder is empty | |
| A hub note for a tag | Create hub note on a tag’s page, or Deckard: Create Hub Note for Tag… |
A template named after the tag’s namespace |
A type, Types/Team.md, from the fields your notes already write |
Deckard: Create Type from Tags…, Create type from #team… on a tag’s page, or the Create a System type quick fix |
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A row’s note, in the type’s notes: folder or the one you choose, with the fields you set |
Deckard: New Note from Type…, Add team… on a type’s rows, the Create person “Omar H”… quick fix, or Create hub note on a typed tag |
A template named after the type’s key |
| A note a link names | Create note on a [[link]] that opens none, or Create missing notes from the problems lens above the note |
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| A row’s hub note, with the field the line’s words set, when the row has none | Set … on a line’s lightbulb | A template named after the type’s key |
A term note, type: term, with the term and its definition under its title |
Make a term note on a term’s hover, or Define… in Stats, through New Note from Type…’s form | Your Term type and its template, else a built-in one in Terms/ |
| A calendar file of your dated tasks | Deckard: Export Tasks as Calendar…, or kept up to date as tasks change (automatic, once set) |
deckard.calendar.exportFile, empty by default |
| A JSON copy of favorites, pins, and searches | Export… in Deckard: Manage Favorites, Pins, and Searches… |
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| A sample workspace | Deckard: Create a Work Sample, in Deckard’s own storage, not your folder |
In your settings
Deckard writes a setting only when you change it from one of its pages or commands: a theme, Zen, a notes folder chosen when asked, folders left out, a parked folder or tag, the board’s status columns, the Tasks view’s search. Each is an ordinary VS Code setting, in the scope the page says.
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