Study from what you already have.
Attach bounded text or a supported photo and ask for a study guide, revision plan, explanation, or checklist.
DevDesk 1.2.4 · One workspace, many kinds of work
Study. Research. Organize. Build. Run projects from one workspace.
DevDesk brings everyday planning, connected knowledge, study and research, writing, APIs, project tools, Git, AI-assisted workflows, Docker and Kubernetes into one local-first workspace. Start simple; use deeper technical controls only when you need them.
Platform note: DevDesk is available for Windows and Android. Desktop-only runtime features such as local Docker and kubectl require a supported desktop environment. An AI provider or paid entitlement is not automatically included.
- Local-first files & portable project context
- Study, research, planning & visual knowledge
- Review-first developer and container operations
DevDesk 1.2.4 feature set
One Harness. Four ways to move work forward.
The same approachable AI surface can help a student, a busy person, a writer, or a software team. Start with ordinary work; unlock project-grade controls only when the task needs them.
Let routines prepare the next step.
Local Once, Daily, Weekdays, and Weekly routines create a notification and wait for you to continue.
Draft without handing over control.
Prepare emails, messages, summaries, and social copy. You review and send them in the destination app yourself.
Move from prompt to verified proposal.
Review code changes, run bounded verification on Windows, use isolated worktrees, and recover safely when needed.
1,532automated Flutter tests passed in the app release gate
WACK PASSzero required failures
2 platformsAndroid + Windows builds validated
Clear boundary for 1.2: DevDesk does not read WhatsApp, Facebook, or other apps' notifications, and it does not reply or post for you. Native OS widgets are not included in this release candidate.
One app · useful from beginner to builder
You do not need to be a developer to make DevDesk useful.
Students can turn material into structured work. Researchers can connect notes and sources. Professionals can organize projects and decisions. Creators can plan and draft. Developers can continue into APIs, Git, agents, verification, Docker and Kubernetes—all without changing products.
For students, researchers, professionals & non-developers
No coding needed
Bring the messy work. Leave with a clear next step.
Learn, collect research, connect ideas, plan projects, organize notes and draft useful work in plain language. Technical knowledge is optional, not the entry requirement.
- 1Choose a simple starterPersonal plan, Study, Business, or Research / writing.
- 2Add what you already haveTasks, notes, documents, bounded text files, or a supported photo.
- 3Ask in normal languagePrepare a study plan, summary, email draft, checklist, or weekly plan.
- 4Review and use it your wayKeep it in Today, Board, Calendar, Timeline, Outline, or your own files.
For developers, builders & technical project teams
Review-first engineering
Move from project context to a verified proposal—without losing control.
Keep docs, code context, API work, Git, and agent-assisted changes around the selected workspace instead of scattering them across tools.
- 1Open the selected projectDevDesk scopes files, documentation, Git, and optional agent context.
- 2Inspect or build with focused toolsEdit Markdown, JSON, OpenAPI, test APIs, compare Diff, or ask the Harness.
- 3Review the exact proposalMain-workspace writes wait behind a visible diff and your approval.
- 4Verify, isolate, and recoverUse Windows checks, bounded terminals, Git worktrees, and recovery evidence.
Student Notes → revision plan
Writer Sources → connected draft
Small team Meetings → decisions + next actions
Developer Project → reviewed + verified change
Operator Workspace → Docker + Kubernetes controls
DevDesk from CMD, PowerShell, or your shell
Keep your project workflow moving from the terminal.
The standalone DevDesk CLI brings files, knowledge, API tests, local data, and operations to your shell. Explore the complete command reference checked against DevDesk CLI 1.2.6+21, with examples and options for all 86 top-level usage lines.
Files, projects & knowledge
Create folders and files, inspect and search a project, read Git status, compare files or folders, and query Markdown headings, metadata, links, backlinks, graph issues, and paths.
API tests & everyday tools
Send HTTP requests, run saved API collections with environment and report options, validate OpenAPI, and use JSON, Base64, URL, regex, UUID, timestamp, and JWT utilities.
Local data & portability
Manage workspace manifests, snippets, notes, settings, and backup files. Preview a restore before applying it, or use a separate data directory for an isolated profile.
Docker, Kubernetes & Android
Check runtimes, inspect containers and Kubernetes workloads, read logs, and use ADB device lists, screenshots, UI inspection, and logcat. Docker lifecycle actions and ADB controls require explicit confirmation flags.
AI, agents & routines
Inspect providers, plan an explicit prompt, run AI with consent, view saved agents and activity, schedule graph-health automation, and manage review-first routines from your terminal.
Verification & scripting
Inspect verification plans, run selected checks, set process timeouts, generate shell completion, export diagnostics, and use JSON output and documented exit codes in scripts.
Workspace Containers & Kubernetes · Application-first
Operate Docker and Kubernetes from the project that explains them.
DevDesk combines beginner-friendly applications and wizards with the raw resources advanced users still need. Runtime Doctor, deterministic Kubernetes troubleshooting, Compatibility Packs, RBAC/context guards and a shared operation engine make the GUI easier to use without hiding the underlying runtime.
Think in applications, not container IDs
See Compose projects as logical apps, keep standalone containers separate, and use one canonical Create Container wizard with Simple and Advanced paths.
Health and troubleshooting from real metadata
Correlate workloads, Pods, Services, Ingress, configuration metadata and Warning events, then open Describe, logs, rollout, restart, scale or terminal actions from deterministic findings.
Create a local cluster or deploy without memorizing every flag
Use guided kind/minikube cluster creation and a visual Deploy App builder, while generated YAML, dry-run, diff, Apply and rollout verification remain reviewable.
Adapt to supported Docker/Kubernetes CLI changes safely
Import validated JSON/YAML Compatibility Packs for version rules, warnings, disables and bounded aliases—never arbitrary shell or PowerShell execution.
Context, namespace and RBAC stay part of the operation
Guarded Kubernetes actions verify the selected identity and run read-only authorization preflight instead of relying on a stale screen selection.
One operation lifecycle across Docker and Kubernetes
Conflicting mutations are coordinated centrally, durable history stays redacted, and interrupted operations are recovered instead of appearing permanently active.
Real DevDesk interface. These captures show selected runtime/container surfaces; the updated manual also covers Applications, cluster creation, Deploy App, Compatibility, guided troubleshooting, RBAC guards and unified operations.
Desktop runtime: local Docker and kubectl operations require a supported desktop runtime. Android can share the product experience and entitlement, but this release does not advertise a remote container runtime.
Why DevDesk
Enough structure to help. Never enough to trap you.
DevDesk keeps ordinary project files as the source of truth, then gives them useful views, relationships, portability, and optional specialist tools. You can begin without learning Markdown, Git, JSON, or AI.
See the same work your way
See the same task, note, goal, meeting, or decision as a list, table, cards, board, calendar, timeline, outline, map, or relationship.
Keep a folder you control
Your content stays in the folder you chose. Open it in another editor, back it up normally, and share only the files you approve.
Add depth only when needed
Add connected Markdown, portable Visual Canvas, JSON, OpenAPI, saved API testing, OKF checks, Diff, and workspace-scoped Git as needed.
More than an AI chat
The complete workspace around the answer.
AI can prepare something useful. DevDesk also gives that output a place to live, a way to connect, a schedule, project context, and safety controls—so the work can continue after the chat ends.
Organize
Tasks, goals, meetings, assignments, and decisions across Today, List, Board, Calendar, and Timeline.
For everyday clarityThink & connect
Notes, backlinks, Relationships, Knowledge Graph, Visual Canvas, and Diagram Studio keep ideas understandable.
For learning and researchAsk & create
Use the AI Harness with bounded files and supported photos for plans, explanations, summaries, and drafts.
For useful first versionsRemember
A local Notification Center and review-first Once, Daily, Weekdays, or Weekly routines surface the next step.
For steady progressBuild, run & verify
Markdown, JSON, OpenAPI, API testing, Diff, Git, code proposals, terminals, Docker, Kubernetes, worktrees, and Browser Agent.
For serious projectsOwn & move
Ordinary files remain canonical. Copy, back up, clone, reopen, and grant sensitive permissions only when needed.
For lasting control
Visual product tour
Know what each screen does before you click.
App-matched HTML previews show the real DevDesk layout without using a private project screenshot. Open any card for the exact workflow, platform behavior, and safety boundary.
Workspace
Files, tools, and calm tab management
Five tabs stay visible. Every additional file or tool remains in the numbered hidden-tab menu.
Tour the workspace workbenchKnowledge
A graph that explains itself
Local or Workspace scope, filters, groups, timeline replay, display controls, and dynamic spacing.
Understand the knowledge graphVisual thinking
Professional diagrams, portable source
Search shapes, connect ideas, use templates or auto layout, then export PNG or SVG.
Open the Diagram Studio guideDeveloper
API work without losing project context
Collections, environments, checks, responses, and protected values stay organized around the selected project.
Explore API Studio
Portable by design
Move the folder. Keep the project.
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Choose or create a folder
Preview a new workspace, or open an existing folder without writes. Add portable identity only when you choose it.
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Work with ordinary files
DevDesk derives views and relationships. Safe project writes stay reviewable, bounded, and conflict-aware.
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Copy or clone and reopen
Open
project.devdesk. Local registration and indexes are rebuilt; protected values and trust stay device-local.
A foundation that stays familiar
Your work can grow without starting over.
| When your work changes | What DevDesk adds | What remains the source of truth |
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| A task needs a deadline | Calendar or Timeline can show it | The same task file |
| Notes begin to connect | Relationships and Graph can follow saved links | The same Markdown files |
| A project becomes technical | JSON, OpenAPI, API, Diff, and scoped Git tools become useful | The selected project folder |
| You move to another device | DevDesk rebuilds local registration and indexes | The copied or cloned folder and project.devdesk |
Views are derived from the same workspace content. DevDesk does not create a second cloud copy of the project behind your back.
Trust before automation
Helpful should never mean mysterious.
Read-only indexes can rebuild automatically. Project writes use Manual, Review changes, or bounded Safe automatic mode. Secrets, cookies, execution trust, recents, and personal layout do not belong in portable project files.
No silent overwrite
Existing paths and external file changes are preserved and reported.
No required cloud account
Your selected folder remains the home of the project. Network tools act only when you use them.
No automatic command trust
Opening a folder does not run Git, scripts, terminals, or project commands. Bounded execution needs a separate local decision.
Project-grade power when you need it
When work becomes a project, the Harness grows with it.
Select the workspace, inspect every proposed write, verify on Windows, and isolate parallel workers in Git worktrees. The optional Edge Browser Agent and MCP Agent Connector remain behind exact permissions, so project context never becomes blanket authority.
- Review-first main-workspace changes
- Selected-workspace context
- Bounded file and vision input
- Review-first AI routines
- Exact terminal and browser approvals
- Isolated parallel worktrees
- Verification evidence and recovery
- Choose the workspaceThe connector exposes only the active or assigned workspace.Your scope
- Choose permissionsWorkspace text, proposals, and scheduled checks stay separately controlled.Your limits
- Review before a writeCompare the proposal, approve it in DevDesk, reject it, or stop.Your decision
DevDesk does not include an AI provider or subscription.
Complete, searchable manual
Choose your path. Learn only what helps next.
Everyday and work guideTasks, notes, goals, meetings, decisions, and the views that keep them useful.
Student guideSubjects, assignments, class notes, resources, and optional due dates.
Research and writing guideOutline, research notes, source notes, drafts, relationships, and graph.
Developer guideProject docs, files, APIs, Diff, Source Control, and optional agent context.
Complete user manualBeginner-first guide, walkthrough, glossary, troubleshooting, and references.
Visual feature guideApp-matched HTML previews for every major screen, tool, and workflow.
Workspace workbench and tabsFive visible tabs, hidden editors, contextual tools, Source Control, and terminals.
Home and navigationKnow where to create, browse, search, and get help.
Relationships and graphUse clean connections, filters, list fallback, link editing, and undo.
Structured workspace viewsCompare the same Markdown-backed work in tables, cards, maps, and portable saved views.
Visual CanvasBrainstorm in the portable JSON Canvas format on Windows or Android.
Diagram StudioCreate flowcharts, software diagrams, mind maps, research maps, and study plans.
AI Agent ConnectorConnect Codex or Gemini CLI to selected workspace context with review-only changes.
AI Harness and WorkbenchAttach bounded text or a photo, plan or study, and use reviewed coding, Windows verification, parallel workers, and Edge browser evidence.
Notifications and AI routinesReview local alerts and schedule prompts that always wait for your confirmation.
DevDesk from your terminalComplete CLI command reference: files, knowledge, APIs, Docker/Kubernetes, Android ADB, agents, routines, completion, and diagnostics.
Saved API testingRequests, environments, checks, runners, and protected values.
Structure checks (OKF)Separate required rules from advice and optional improvements.
Compare files and scoped GitReview diffs, control workspace files, and create explicit local checkpoints.
TroubleshootingRecover from workspace, file, graph, API, Git, or layout problems.
Manual-powered support
Ask about DevDesk. Get the matching manual guidance.
The static DevDesk Support Assistant runs entirely in this website and is ready for GitHub Pages. It searches the published manual, quotes relevant guidance, and links every answer to its source page. No account, API key, or hosted AI service is used.
- Manual onlyAnswers are extracted from published DevDesk guidance.
- Sources includedOpen the relevant page to verify each answer.
- Private by defaultYour question stays in the browser and is not stored.
Featured graph-to-code demo
One Markdown task. One prompt. Reviewed code.
Watch Codex follow a DevDesk knowledge graph from one task to the relevant brief, architecture, source, and tests. Then download the exact starter workspace and reproduce the review-before-write flow on your own device.
- Task-linked graphOne Markdown entry point leads to the exact planning and architecture context.
- Bounded code understandingThe agent inspects the relevant source and tests without an uncontrolled repository dump.
- Approval before writeReview the complete two-file proposal, apply it recoverably, or reject it.
Start with one useful thing
A task. A note. An assignment. A question. A project.
Choose the starter that feels closest, then make it yours. Windows and Android are available now.
