Décalage was first introduced by Deligne in his work on Hodge theory and provides us with a way to construct a new filtered chain complex from an old one, in a certain way. Thinking of spectral sequences as a way to process the data available in a filtration, one can roughly think of the décalage machine as providing us with a way to encode "turning the page of a spectral sequence" on the level of filtrations. Although not originally phrased in this way, décalage can be made sense in terms taking connective covers of a filtration in a certain