# Dex Guide

> A plain-English guide to installing Dex, understanding how it works, and making it your own. Dex is a free, open-source personal chief-of-staff built on Claude Code. Each page below is available as raw Markdown at the .md URL.

## Start here

- [What Dex is and how it works](https://heydex.ai/help/how-dex-works.md): The five building blocks behind Dex — and why understanding them makes you better at working with AI everywhere.

## Getting set up

- [Installing Dex](https://heydex.ai/help/install.md): From zero to your first Dex conversation in about ten minutes — no programming experience needed.
- [Your first conversation](https://heydex.ai/help/onboarding.md): What Dex asks when you first meet, why each question matters, and what gets built when you finish.
- [Your first week with Dex](https://heydex.ai/help/first-week.md): A realistic day-by-day path from "just installed" to "this is part of how I work."
- [Connecting your tools](https://heydex.ai/help/integrations.md): Calendar, Granola, Google Workspace, Todoist, Things, Trello and more — what each connection gives you and what it takes to set up.

## Using Dex every day

- [The daily and weekly rhythm](https://heydex.ai/help/daily-rhythm.md): Daily plans, evening reviews, weekly priorities, quarterly goals — the planning loop that holds everything together.
- [Meetings — prep, capture, follow-through](https://heydex.ai/help/meetings.md): Walk into every meeting prepared and walk out with nothing dropped — with or without a recorder.
- [Tasks that don't fall through cracks](https://heydex.ai/help/tasks-planning.md): How Dex creates, tracks, syncs, and completes tasks — and why it pushes back when you overcommit.
- [People, companies, and projects](https://heydex.ai/help/people-projects.md): One page per person, aggregated company context, and projects that flag themselves when they stall.
- [Search and memory](https://heydex.ai/help/search-memory.md): How Dex remembers across sessions, and how to switch on search that finds things by meaning, not just keywords.

## Make it yours

- [Make Dex your own](https://heydex.ai/help/make-it-your-own.md): Tune Dex's voice, teach it your priorities, add your own commands, connect any tool — four levels of personalization, none requiring code.
- [Prompts to steal](https://heydex.ai/help/prompts-to-steal.md): A field guide of copy-paste prompts that use Dex differently — flip the script, mine your own data, and make the AI earn its keep.

## Going deeper

- [Understanding Claude Code (the engine)](https://heydex.ai/help/claude-code-primer.md): A plain-English education in the AI assistant underneath Dex — and why using Dex quietly makes you fluent in working with AI agents anywhere.
- [Updating, health, and troubleshooting](https://heydex.ai/help/updating-troubleshooting.md): How updates work without touching your data, the doctor that keeps everything honest, and answers to the questions everyone asks.