3.1 Command Palette Lexicon

Standard Garden features a keyboard-first command system (called The Gate or The Launcher) inspired by professional developer tooling and terminal craft. Type :: followed by a command name to access features, themes, and navigation instantly.

1. Accessing the Gate

Open the command palette in any of the following ways:

Press Cmd+K (macOS) or Ctrl+K (Windows / Linux).
Click the :: command trigger button in the upper header.
Type :: anywhere while browsing the garden.
Click any inline ::command link in these docs to open the palette pre-filled.

Navigate across the garden’s public clearings at the speed of thought:

::home — Return to the garden’s homepage.
::mycelium — Open the Mycelium exploration view to wander connections between notes.
::daily — Visit the daily communal Bloom.
::random — Serendipitous jump to a random public note.
::guide — Open the official operating manual (you are here).
::standard — View the Standard Garden manifesto and foundations.

3. Intelligence & Assistance (Hyphe)

Converse with your notes through the garden’s dedicated intelligence:

::ask — Open Hyphe to search semantically and ask questions answered strictly from your notes.
::hyphe — Direct shortcut to initiate an inquiry with Hyphe.

4. Theme & Atmosphere Commands

Switch color modes and atmospheric personalities on the fly. All themes dynamically support light and dark substrates:

Color Modes

::light — Enforce the light color substrate.
::dark — Enforce the dark color substrate.
::auto — Follow your operating system’s light/dark appearance preference.

Popular Themes

::theme-forest — Deep organic greens and warm earth tones.
::theme-technical — Monospace precision and blueprint structure.
::theme-humanist — Warm cream paper and literary serifs.
::theme-editorial — Classical broadsheet newspaper layout with dramatic contrast.
::theme-exhibit — Museum-grade minimalist layout optimized for visual art and photography.
::theme-carnel — Tactile terracotta accents and warm editorial rhythm.
::theme-default — Balanced, clean typographic baseline.

5. Editor & Note Management Commands

When viewing or writing notes, context-aware commands appear automatically:

::new — Open the web writer to draft a new note.
::cite (or ::quote) — Create a new note that immediately cites and links to the note currently in view.
::edit — Open the current note in the editor.
::delete — Permanently remove the current note (with confirmation).
::copy — Copy the permanent short link (stnd.gd/...) to your clipboard.
::copy-content — Copy the raw Markdown source of the active note.
::export — Download the current note as a clean .md file.
::export-with-attachments — Export the note and all attached media as a bundled ZIP archive.
::my-notes — Open the note management dashboard to review, open, or purge your published notes.

6. Identity & Session Commands

::login — Initiate passwordless email authentication or biometric passkey sign-in.
::logout — Terminate your current session and return to guest mode.
::profile — Jump directly to your personal gardener address (/@username).
::api — View, copy, or rotate your personal API key (sg_…) for Obsidian and CLI publishing.