The Command Stone ⌘
The fastest path to anything in PD is not a menu. Signed in, triple-tap the background of any page — anywhere in the app, docs included — and the Command Stone rises: the platform's command line, in a speech bubble, open and ready to type.
How: Signed in, triple-tap the background of any page.
- ①︎ The dialogue — the Stone speaks first: a terse line, then a drier aside.
- ②︎ The widgets — glanceable cards with the real data; long answers scroll here.
- ③︎ The action — every answer that can be acted on offers its one obvious next move.
- ④︎ The input — one field, no modes; the full phrasebook is Abilities.
Every other character on the platform has a personality. The Stone has power and intelligence. It reads what you meant, answers from the same ledger the rest of the platform runs on, and acts on the answer — all in one field.
How it speaks
Every response arrives in the same speech bubble, built the same way, top to bottom:
- The dialogue — two rows at the top. The Stone speaks first: a terse line, then a drier aside. Same question, same mood; new question, new mood.
- The widgets — the middle of the bubble. Glanceable black cards carrying the actual answer: big type, real data, live numbers. Long answers scroll here while the dialogue and the button hold their ground.
- The action — one button at the bottom. Every answer that can be acted on offers its one obvious next move: anchor the floor, wishlist the Output, open the winner, etch the to-do. One tap, done.
What it understands
One input, no modes. The Stone hears which of these you meant:
- Find — the real global search, inline: people, projects, Outputs, pages. Enter takes the top hit.
- Ask — questions about the market, answered from the ledger: floors, all-time highs, volumes, who holds what, first mints, release dates, the platform's biggest spenders.
- Compute — math typed straight in (
3*67), money converted at the live rate (0.05 eth to cad), dates resolved from plain words (next week tuesday). - Etch — natural-language creation: type a to-do, a note, an anchor, a watch or a wishlist line and commit it with a second touch. An etched item rides the same stores the full tools use.
- Cast — spell, mode and workspace names flip the real settings, by their exact names. Typing
fogcasts Fog. - Summon — whole surfaces called by name and returned inline:
calendar,priceday,calc,gallery,matrix, and the rest of the deck.
The complete command reference — every phrase, every widget, every example — lives on its own page: Abilities.
It remembers, and it sees
The Stone keeps its last subject. Ask "prisms floor", then just "ath" — it knows you still mean Prisms. Summon it while looking at an Output and it adopts that Output as its subject, so a bare "floor" or "calc 0.2" means the thing on your screen.
Getting rid of it
Minimize it to a single dot in the corner — swipe the bar down, or type minimize — and tap the dot to bring it back. Close it completely with another triple-tap on the background, or by typing close. It says goodbye. It means "see you soon."
Further reading
- Abilities — the complete command reference
- The Shell — everything else that persists while pages change
- Discovery — the other ways into the catalog
- The Spell Book — the names Cast understands