Settings

Preferences has eight tabs. This page maps what lives where; the pages linked from each section explain the settings in context.

Open Preferences from the toolbar … menu or the menu bar icon.

Appearance

Scroll direction and trigger zone depth · Esc closes the shade · launch at startup · awning style, tab width and inactive opacity · window material · transparency for shade, sticky notes and window mode · editor background tint · sticky note border and collapse snap · chrome border width · workspace dots.

→ Appearance

Workspaces

One row per workspace: name, colour, assigned file tree, home page, visible and active flags.

→ Workspaces

Editor

The largest tab. Fonts and sizes · editor margin · code block wrap, width, language header, line height and colours · checkbox style and colour · automatic continuation · parent checkbox tracking · line numbers and whitespace per mode · table lines, stripes and auto-format · attachments folder · image resize step · multi-image drop · animate GIFs · preview backend.

→ Editor settings

Shortcuts

The three global hotkeys and all 32 editor actions.

→ Shortcuts · Keyboard shortcuts reference

Plugins

Enable and disable plugins, set each one’s folder scope, and reach the catalog.

→ Plugins

Vault

File trees — add, remove, rename, set auto-tracking and active state · new note naming strategy · conflict resolution mode.

→ Vault and files · Conflicts

History

Enable revision history · repository path · commit interval · external change debounce · maximum concurrent loads.

→ Revision history · The git backend

Premium

Account status, sign in and out, trial state, and which features are unlocked.

→ Licensing · Signing in

Where settings are stored

In macOS preferences, not in your vault. Copying the notes folder to another Mac brings the notes, not the configuration.