Settings opens from the Settings button (the sliders icon) in the quick controls at the right-hand end of the tab bar, in the editor and in the Explorer. It holds the preferences that are about you rather than about any particular plan, which is why there is one set of them and not one per plan.
The dialog lists its categories down the left, with a Search settings field above them, and shows one category at a time on the right. Type into the search to find a setting by name or by a word it is about ("transparency" finds Panel Opacity). On a phone, the list and the category take turns: tap a category to open it, and go back for the list.
Some categories hold sub-categories (Account holds Notifications and API Tokens). On a computer, click the parent (or its arrow) to show them beneath it, and again to fold them away. On a phone, tap the parent and its sub-categories are listed at the bottom of its page.
Each category groups its settings into cards, one card per section, with a short line under each setting saying what it does. A setting that only matters while another is on sits indented beneath it, and shows only while that switch is on.
Editor
- Power User Mode, under Power User: applies a set of recommended settings in one go and unlocks Minimal Chrome, which hides labels and hints while keeping every control. Switching it off puts back the settings you did not change. See Power User Mode.
Appearance
- Theme: Light, Dark or System, which follows your device. This is the editor's own chrome, not a tab's theme, although every tab theme has a light and a dark half that follows it. The same control sits at the end of the tab bar. Saved on this device only (see below). See Appearance.
- Button Labels: names the buttons along the bottom (Search, Settings, the appearance switch, and Trash, New, Find, Types and Style in the bottom-right corner) beside their icons, on a screen wide enough for them. On by default; turn it off for icons alone. A phone always shows icons alone.
- UI Scale: makes the panels, the menu button and the buttons in the bottom-right corner bigger or smaller, from 80% to 120%, with 100% in the middle of the slider. Your boards, sheets, dialogs and menus stay as they are, so it is not the same as your browser's zoom. Beneath it, Panel Scale, Toolbar Scale and Corner Buttons Scale size each of those on its own; moving UI Scale again sets all three back to the same size. The chrome resizes as you drag. Desktop only: a phone always uses 100%.
Keyboard
- Keyboard Shortcuts: the switch that turns the editor's keyboard shortcuts on and off. Off means all of them, chords like undo included, not just the single-letter keys. Saved on this device only (see below).
- All Shortcuts: the full shortcut reference, in collapsible groups. The Keyboard Shortcuts command in search opens Settings straight on this category. See Keyboard Shortcuts.
Panels
- Panel Opacity: fades the panels, from 30% to 100%, so what is behind them shows through (buttons and the Explorer stay opaque); a panel snaps back to fully opaque while you hover or focus it.
Panels also holds Collaborate, with Enable Collaborate Panel: the list of a tab's comment threads, behind a button in the bottom-right corner that only appears while the tab has a comment. With it off, comments still work where they were left. See Comments.
Accessibility
- Reduce Motion: turns off the decorative animations and transitions (panels, popovers, dialogs) so the interface appears instantly instead of sliding. Your device's own reduce-motion setting is always respected; this lets you force it on even where the device doesn't ask for it. See Accessibility.
- UI Scale: Open Appearance takes you to UI Scale, for bigger panels and corner buttons.
Tours
One switch per guided tour. Plan Tours switches the planning tours all at once, with Boards Tour, Sheets Tour and Dashboards Tour beneath it, and Forms Tour sits on its own. Each tour offers itself once, where it belongs, and its switch turns itself off once you have taken or dismissed it. Switch one back on and close Settings to take that tour again: it starts straight away if you are where it belongs, or the next time you are. See The Plan Tour.
Account
Account shows who you are (a guest, or your name and email when signed in), your Trash (deleted plans wait there for 30 days), and Delete Account. It holds two sub-categories:
Notifications
- In-Editor Notifications: the brief confirmation shown when you do something whose result isn't on screen, like moving a plan to a folder. Errors and warnings are always shown, whatever this is set to, so a failure is never silently swallowed. A notification stays put while you point at it or tab into it, and Escape closes the one you are on.
- Email: once signed in, one switch per email (someone joins, comments on or mentions you in your plan, fills in your form, assigns you an action or responds to a team invite, plus tips and milestones). A guest sees a sign-in prompt instead. See Email Notifications.
API Tokens
- Create, view and revoke the tokens your own scripts and connected AI tools use to call liveplanner as you. Each expires six months after it is created. A new token's secret is shown once, so copy it before you choose Done. Signed-in only, and absent on a deployment without accounts. See API Tokens.
Anywhere Settings says something needs an account, it ends with a Sign In link that brings you back to where you were.
Privacy
- Send Anonymous Usage Events: the small first-party events listed on the public telemetry dashboard: no user content, no third-party trackers. Turn it off to keep everything you do on your device. See What We Collect.
Settings follow you, most of them
Settings are stored against your identity, not your browser, and apply to every plan you open on every device you sign in from. For a guest, "your identity" is the guest identity liveworkspace gives this browser, so the preferences last as long as that does.
A few things deliberately stay on the device you are using:
- Theme (light, dark or system) in Appearance.
- The Keyboard Shortcuts switch, so you can keep shortcuts on where you have a full keyboard and off where you don't.
- Explorer view: List, Card or Details.
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