Command Bar & Search

The Command Bar is the fastest way to find anything in Cadeo and navigate between views.

Opening the Command Bar

Press Cmd+K (Mac) or Ctrl+K (Windows/Linux) from anywhere in the app.

What You Can Search

Type	What's searched
Tasks	Title and notes
Notes	Title and content
Projects	Project name
Areas	Area name
Commands	Built-in actions (see below)

Results are grouped by type (up to 3 per group) and ranked by relevance using fuzzy matching.

Available Commands

• Go to Inbox / Planner / Projects / Notes / Archive
• Create new task / project / area / note
• Plan My Day — open the AI day planner
• Plan My Week — open the AI weekly planner
• Project Pulse — view project health dashboard
• Wrap up the day — trigger the End of Day Reflection sheet on demand (matches: wrap, end, day, close, ritual, reflect, review)
• Show morning brief — re-open the Morning Brief sheet on demand, even if you've already dismissed it for the day (matches: morning, brief, open, ritual, plan, today, review)
• Help Center — open help.cadeo.app

Quick Task Creation

A "Create task" row always appears at the bottom of results. Press Cmd+Enter (or Ctrl+Enter) to instantly create a task from your search query text.

Keyboard Navigation

Key	Action
Arrow Up/Down	Move between results
Enter	Select highlighted item
Cmd+Enter	Create task from query
Escape	Close command bar

Semantic Search

An AI-powered semantic search runs in parallel with fuzzy search. Results appear under a Related group with an AI badge, surfacing conceptually similar items even if they don't match your exact keywords.

Offline Search (Desktop)

On the desktop app with local AI models installed, semantic search works offline. Tasks and notes are embedded locally using Nomic Embed v2, so you can search by meaning without an internet connection. Local results appear instantly alongside cloud results when available.

When the On-Device Only privacy setting is enabled, only local search is used — no queries are sent to the cloud.