Settings and account controls

Open Settings with Command-, or the canvas gear button. Settings combines appearance preferences, account information, AI choices and maintenance tools. Some sections depend on the Mac's capabilities or the installed build.

Appearance and panel placement#

Under Appearance, Theme offers System, Dark and Light. System follows macOS. Light uses the app's warm cream palette.

Mirror layout (toolbar left, library right) changes the toolbar and panel arrangement where that option is shown. It is a layout preference, separate from File Mirror, which writes Markdown files.

Use Show List (⌃L) or Control-L to reveal the Mac list panel. Hide List (⌃L) closes it. Drag the panel's resize edge to change its width. It overlays the canvas rather than giving the canvas a separate permanent column. The list is hidden initially in this beta.

The panel also hides while the project is in its summary view. Return to the ordinary node view before trying to reveal it there.

Today Rhythm#

Wake time and Bedtime set the daily rhythm used by Today's presentation and daily check-in behaviour. The controls keep at least an hour between wake time and bedtime. These are app preferences, not entries in an external calendar.

Your Mac's calendar and time zone determine how days and times are displayed. Adjust those system settings if your entries appear in the wrong calendar day.

AI and your account#

Glob Account shows session status and, when loaded, account information such as tier, hosted AI availability, credits and reset information. Check Connection checks the account session. It does not transfer the project from this Mac to another client.

Manage Account opens account management. Sign Out ends the account session in this app. It is different from the maintenance tools that remove notes or knowledge records. Sign in again when you need account-backed features.

See account and credits for current plans, credit rules and access keys. The current commercial options are on Pricing. An older model or API-key description in the beta's Settings is not a separate offer of a plan.

Under AI Summarization, a compatible Mac can expose AI Provider with Auto, Apple and Glob API. Auto tries available Apple Intelligence support before a hosted fallback. The on-device route requires actual Apple Intelligence readiness, not merely a Mac that can run Glob.

The preference does not guarantee that every AI feature or request stays on one route. Some larger or structured summary requests are unsuitable for the on-device path and can use a hosted fallback. Hosted requests need an account session and available access. Without an appropriate provider, a feature may return an error or use a feature-specific simpler result.

Stream summaries as they generate shows text progressively instead of waiting for the completed response. Some chat paths use this preference too. Partial text followed by an error is not a completed successful result.

Edit Summary Prompts opens the prompt editor. Changes there influence subsequent requests, rather than rewriting existing saved results.

Reflection and journal processing#

Reflection contains Build the temporal ledger, Show reflection cards, Allow external clarity passes and Enforce daily spend ceiling. Emergency stop (override) pauses that stack regardless of the individual enabled states. Run reflection pass now requests a pass rather than guaranteeing a new card.

These settings affect reflection and related history features. They are not a general on/off control for every summary, document question or provider chat.

Journal hosted processing has Allow hosted journal processing, Create standing purpose grant and View grants and content-free receipts. A grant's form lets you choose a processing purpose and an expiry of 7, 30 or 90 days, then use Grant or Cancel. The receipt view lists recorded grants and processing entries.

This beta can process with existing grants without a separate confirmation prompt for every action. Do not treat the consent form's descriptive text as a promise that all requests must stop at that form. Use journal controls, the relevant preview and the Privacy Policy to understand the feature you are using.

Reflection also links to Your operating manual, View open loops, Your patterns, Agent handoff, View clarity-pass audit log, View personal experiments, View refusals and View accepted tradeoffs. Personal records covers the record tools. The audit log is for inspecting clarity-pass outcomes, not editing source notes.

Files, imports and knowledge#

Export & Import and File Mirror are described in exports and mirroring. Cross-device sync has significant limitations in the public beta; read sync on Mac before relying on its passphrase controls.

Knowledge Store → Open Knowledge Browser opens the record browser. Manage agent access keys opens key management for account-backed access; keep access credentials separate from your sync passphrase.

Nutrition contains the optional daily calorie reference. Meal estimates explains what saving or removing that reference changes.

Refresh and reset actions#

Data → Refresh Canvas reloads available canvas records. It is not a restore from an external backup and does not establish cross-device sync.

Reset All Nodes to Original opens Reset All Nodes. With an active project, it removes saved summary blocks and resets supported summary/context fields for that project's non-trashed notes. For notes whose bodies were replaced through the older summary operation, it restores the stored original body. It is not an undo for every edit or a way to recreate deleted text. The confirmation warns that the reset cannot be undone.

The Knowledge Database section lists collections and record counts. stale marks an empty collection. Remove … Stale Collections removes those empty collections and reports a result or error; it does not recover missing notes.

Danger Zone provides record erasure by the displayed source-app groups. Select groups, review their counts and type DELETE to enable Erase Selected Data. This acts on those knowledge records; it is not a complete app reset or account-deletion workflow. A partial failure can leave earlier batches erased. Use it only for intended removal, never as a routine repair for an empty panel.

For account deletion, contact [email protected]. For app help, contact [email protected].