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Big picture knowledge management.

A big picture pro-app view of your first thousand ideas. Built for the future of AI agents and ultra-mobile AR/VR displays.

What makes Decker different.

The key design decisions that separate Decker from the rest

Outliner flexibility in kanban form - elegance meets enjoyment, transforming every interaction into a delightful dance of efficiency and creativity.

Simplify everyday business tasks.

Because you’d probably be a little confused if we suggested you complicate your everyday business tasks instead.

WYSIWYG Markdown

simplicity + efficiency at your fingertips

Markdown makes writing and editing a breeze, while ensuring your documents are consistently beautiful and readable across platforms. Type as if helpful UI and shortcuts aren't even there.

Backlinks

The silent synapses of your knowledge network — and more!

Effortlessly connecting related thoughts, they create a dynamic and retrievable web of information that evolves with your understanding.

Intelligent Data

Your silent productivity partner

Automatically recognizing and acting on key information within your notes, they streamline your workflow by connecting you to dates, tasks, and links with seamless precision.

Daily Notes

Your go-to canvas of daily musings

Capturing moments of inspiration and to-do lists in a chronological tapestry that is as easy to navigate as it is to expand.

Smart Tags

Filter and find with finesse

Instantly categorize your content, bringing order and additional forms of navigability to your notes. They're the compass that guides interprets your information landscape.

Query Views

Slice through the noise

Pinpoint the exact data you need. Query views bring into focus the most relevant pieces of your digital knowledge mosaic with precision and ease.

The first principles of Decker

Find out why Decker is a first principles, ground-up take on knowledge management work.

    • Current apps make digital stuff hard to organize

      GUIs are great for baby-stepping. However, they get int the way of daily work: 100+ different widget implementations, artificial boundaries between content types, constant scrolling and context switching. Instead of optimizing for hand-holding beginnings, we optimize for pro efficiency: consistency, flexibility and context.

    • We should leverage our human superpowers

      Humans have thousands of years of evolutionary biology geared toward spatial memory and pattern matching. Leverage compute to provide users with a context that leans INTO those traits instead of forcing the adoption of new ones.

    • Show as much information as you can

      We've build great retina displays, but use that power for more chart-junk instead of information density. Information density that you control provides context that help us work with, integrate, and refine our ideas. We should use it.

    • Allow information to be zoomed/truncated

      Build for cognitive scope sensitivity. Work in the details but provide the ability to create custom helicopter views with the right level of information density for the task at hand.

    • Everything should be keyboard-able

      Maintain your state of flow, but also be much more efficient. Keyboard users tend to be 20-60% more efficient than mouse users at mix and text-heavy tasks, which is most knowledge work.

    • Physicality of action and appearance

      Every item has a place and is actionable providing intuitive, informative feedback to make your digital workspace as natural as flipping a deck of cards.

About the team

Decker founders include Bjørn Stabell and Michael Welch, who together founded the startup studio Exoweb Labs, where they dreamt up and launched the mobile gaming company Happylatte ($8.5M raised from Index Ventures) whose games reached top download and grossing spots and app store market intelligence leader, App Annie/Data.ai ($157M raised from IDG, Sequoia, IVP, Greycroft, Infinity).