Every item in the Jackdaw menu and what it is for. Each item links to its screen help.
Find your way
- Scope: the switch at the top of the menu shows Work (Workspace and Review), Settings (what you configure) or Admin (everything).
- Filter menu…: type to find any screen, whatever the scope.
- Favorites: star an item to pin it to the top in every scope.
- Assistant: the button at the foot of the menu, or Cmd+I (Ctrl+I). See The assistant.
- ? in a screen’s header opens that screen’s help.
Workspace
| Item |
What it is for |
| Dashboard |
Health of the brain: index size, spend, items waiting for you. |
| Journal |
Facts about you, and what agents learned. |
| Email |
Mail from your contacts, by account and folder. |
| Files |
Your folder tree, read into the brain. |
| Notes |
Quick markdown notes. |
| Pages |
Rich documents with draft and commit. |
| Recall |
Memory maps that guide agents. |
| Draw |
A whiteboard canvas per drawing. |
| Tables |
Typed data grids with tabs. |
| Formulas |
Calculations taken from published standards. |
| Apps |
Small programs built for you. |
| Tasks |
To-dos as a list or a board. |
| Events |
Calendar entries with reminders. |
| Contacts |
People, and the email allowlist. |
| Secrets |
Sealed passwords and codes. |
| Docs |
Markdown documentation from disk. |
Review
| Item |
What it is for |
| Models |
Catalogue of provider models and prices. |
| Discover |
Recent senders who are not contacts yet. |
| Team |
Invites, member chats, requests. |
| Pending |
Actions and questions waiting for you. |
Settings
| Item |
What it is for |
| Appearance |
Mode, theme, fonts, logo, backgrounds. |
| Accounts |
Mailboxes over IMAP. |
| Microsoft |
SharePoint, OneDrive and Outlook. |
| Calendars |
Read-only calendar feeds. |
| Profile |
Timezone, locale, house style, reminders. |
| API keys |
Provider keys. |
| MCP |
Let an outside AI client use your brain. |
| Connectors |
Use outside MCP servers and web APIs. |
| Agents |
The assistants and specialists. |
| AI workers |
Background jobs: extract, summarise, voice, vision. |
| Worker groups |
Panels of workers for background runs. |
| Embedding |
The model behind meaning search. |
| Local network |
Reach a model machine on your own network. |
| Tools |
Every action an agent can take. |
| Tool groups |
Bundles of tools you grant to agents. |
| Skills |
Instructions that teach agents. |
| Config |
Your setup compared with the shipped one. |
| Heartbeats |
Scheduled agent turns. |
| Entities |
Merge duplicate people and places. |
| Peers |
Share chosen items with another brain. |
| PDF passwords |
Passwords for reading protected PDFs. |
| Backups |
Scheduled local database dumps. |
| Updates |
Check for and install releases. |
| Services |
Switch optional services on and off. |
| Logins |
Who can sign in, passwords, devices. |
| Audit log |
Who did what, and when. |
System
| Item |
What it is for |
| Studio |
The whole agent graph on one canvas. |
| API Console |
Run any API route or tool by hand. |
| Runners |
Background workflows and their state. |
| Runs |
Large tasks the assistant split into steps. |
| Sandboxes |
Containers where agents run commands. |
| Traces |
Every turn, step by step, with cost. |
| Debug |
Dashboards for spend, facts and context. |
Next
