TaskDeck:Commands and Settings

This page lists everything Task Deck adds to VS Code.

View

Item	Id	Name
Activity Bar container	quickTasks	Task Deck
View	quickTasks.tasksView	Tasks

Commands

Command	Id	Where	What it does
Task Deck: Find Task…	quickTasks.findTask	View title (search icon), Command Palette	Opens a search across all visible tasks and runs the selected one. See Find Task.
Refresh	quickTasks.refresh	View title (refresh icon), Command Palette	Collects the task list again.
Open Settings	quickTasks.manageSources	View title (gear icon), Command Palette	Opens the Settings editor filtered to the Task Deck settings (@ext:MutigerAffe.task-deck).
Task Deck: Show Hidden Source…	quickTasks.showSource	Command Palette	Lets you pick a hidden source and shows it again.
Hide Source	quickTasks.hideSource	Source row (eye icon)	Hides the source and its tasks. See Sources.
Remove Source Configuration	quickTasks.forgetSource	Right-click on a source shown as not found	Deletes all stored settings of that source after a confirmation.
Pin Task	quickTasks.pinTask	Task row (pin icon)	Adds the task to the Pinned group. See Pinned Tasks.
Unpin Task	quickTasks.unpinTask	Task row in the Pinned group (pin icon)	Removes the task from the Pinned group.
Run Task	quickTasks.runTask	Click on a task	Runs the task.
Task Deck: Task List Refreshing	quickTasks.taskLoading	Click on a task that shows loading…	Shows a status bar message that the list is still being refreshed.

Hide Source, Remove Source Configuration and Run Task also appear in the Command Palette. They need a row in the view to work on, so started from the Command Palette they do not do anything useful. Pin Task, Unpin Task and Task Deck: Task List Refreshing are hidden from the Command Palette.

Refresh and Open Settings appear in the Command Palette without the Task Deck: prefix.

Keyboard shortcuts

Task Deck does not add keyboard shortcuts. You can assign your own to the commands above under File → Preferences → Keyboard Shortcuts.

Settings

All settings are objects with the source name as key, for example Workspace for tasks.json or npm. The default is always an empty object. A source without an entry uses the value in the column Without an entry. Details and an example are on Sources.

Setting	Value per source	Without an entry	What it does
quickTasks.sourceEnabled	true, false	shown	false hides the source and its tasks. Set by Hide Source and Show Hidden Source.
quickTasks.sourceIcons	Codicon id	folder	Icon of the source group. The Settings editor offers 14 icons, any other Codicon id works in settings.json.
quickTasks.sourceColors	Theme color id	theme default	Tints the source icon and its task icons. The Settings editor offers 12 colors, any other theme color id works in settings.json.
quickTasks.sourceInclude	list of name patterns	all tasks	If not empty, only tasks that match one of the patterns are shown.
quickTasks.sourceExclude	list of name patterns	no task hidden	Tasks that match one of the patterns are hidden, even if they match an include pattern.
quickTasks.sourceSaveToUser	true, false	false	true makes Hide Source and Show Hidden Source save quickTasks.sourceEnabled for this source to the user settings instead of the workspace settings.
quickTasks.sources	object with enabled, icon, color, include, exclude	none	Deprecated. Still read as a fallback for sources that have no entry in the new settings.

Name patterns use * for any number of characters and ? for one character. A pattern has to match the whole task name. Upper and lower case don't matter.

Suggested icons

folder, package, tools, checklist, gear, rocket, beaker, terminal, file-code, database, cloud, symbol-event, briefcase, combine

Suggested colors

charts.blue, charts.green, charts.orange, charts.red, charts.purple, charts.yellow, terminal.ansiBlue, terminal.ansiGreen, terminal.ansiRed, terminal.ansiYellow, terminal.ansiCyan, terminal.ansiMagenta

Stored data

Besides the settings, Task Deck stores two things for each workspace in the VS Code workspace storage:

• the pinned tasks
• the last task list, which is shown at once on the next start

Neither is written to settings.json.

File types

Task Deck adds no languages, file types or editors. It watches .vscode/tasks.json files in the workspace and refreshes the list when one of them changes.