The menu

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.

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.

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.

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: keys this brain uses to call other services.
MCP	Let an outside AI client use your brain.
API access	Your own keys for scripts and MCP clients that use this 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.

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.