Preferences

Open Preferences from the main menu or with Ctrl+,. Changes take effect in every open window.

Appearance

Choose System, Light, Dark or Solarized under Theme. Solarized follows the system’s light and dark setting. Focus Mode decides how much of the window fades while you write. Choose None to keep everything visible, Medium to fade the bars and sidebar, or High to fade text away from the caret and other panes too. Moving the pointer or pressing Esc brings the controls back. You can also change how images, PDFs and diagrams are recoloured to match the theme.

Editor and files

Text Editor chooses Accent or a terminal editor found by your login shell. Document Font changes the editor’s font, while Preview Font changes the rendered page and its printouts and HTML exports. Until you choose one, the editor uses the system monospace font and the preview uses the system document font. Column Width sets how wide the text can grow, and Full-Width Preview gives wide tables more room. The editor also offers Spell Checking, Word Suggestions, Ghost Text, Line Numbers and a Minimap. See Notes for ghost text and preview use.

Under Files, Show Hidden Files controls names beginning with a dot. Colour Changed Files tints files changed in Git and their folders in the Files pane.

Commands and terminals

Under Commands, choose Add Command to save a name, command line and optional shortcut. Run it by name from the command palette or with its shortcut. It opens in a terminal at the vault root, on the host for a remote vault, and closes after a successful exit. An unsuccessful exit keeps the tab and its output visible. Closing the window leaves a running command available when the vault reopens.

Under Terminal, Debug Terminal places a debugged program’s terminal in the same pane or a split on the chosen side. It leaves the keyboard in the source editor.

This Vault

Set Templates Folder for the templates used by notes. New Files Folder is where New File starts when no folder is selected in the tree. Attachments Folder is where pasted and dropped images go. Leave it empty to store images beside the note, use ./images for a subfolder beside it, or use Images for a folder at the vault root.