Settings and appearance

Settings brings together the preferences and maintenance controls for your workspace. Open the gear button labelled Settings on the toolbar. You can also use the keyboard shortcut.

Settings opens over your workspace. Click outside the panel or press Escape to close it. On a small screen, scroll inside the panel to reach the lower sections.

Appearance#

Choose Dark, Glob Classic, or Light under Appearance. The change takes effect immediately; there is no Save button.

Before you choose a theme, Glob follows your system's light or dark preference. An explicit choice stays selected when that preference changes. Your choice is remembered in this browser and updates other Glob tabs in the same browser profile. If the browser prevents the preference from being saved, it still applies to the current page.

Account#

Signed in as shows the account used by this workspace. Check it first if you cannot find notes you expected from another device.

Profile & account settings opens the account page. Its sections include Profile, Usage, API keys, Project sharing / Invitations, Login & security, and Sync. Choose Back to Glob there to return to the workspace. See the account guide for account details, credits, and connected tools, and sharing for invitations.

The account page's Sync section is explanatory. Use the workspace Settings panel to check the live sync state or request a sync.

Delete account opens the account portal. Account deletion is a separate action from signing out of this browser. Read the account guide and the portal's confirmation before continuing. Account questions can go to [email protected].

Sync#

The Status row shows the current state. It can read locked, hydrating, syncing, waiting, offline, or error. When there is an error, the row also shows its message.

Choose Sync beside Sync now to request another attempt. This is also useful after reconnecting or when a change from another device has not appeared. There is a sync button on the list toolbar too; its label describes whether Glob is loading, syncing, offline, or asking you to retry.

Sync pauses when the page is hidden. Bring Glob back into view before checking its state. For a missing note, check the account and current project as well as the network connection. See troubleshooting.

Prompts and AI context#

Choose Summariser prompts to open Prompts within Settings. Use the Settings back button at the top to return. You can inspect the built-in instruction cards and try editing or rewriting their wording. Those edits stay in the open editor: they are not saved and do not change the instructions used by summary generation. See Prompts before spending time on a custom instruction.

Under AI, Include lookups and summaries switches between On and Off. It is off by default. When on, an earlier lookup or summary can accompany a note when Glob reads it for a lookup, brainstorm, summary, or Ask Glob request. Brainstorm suggestions are not included through this setting; the suggestions you keep become nodes of their own.

This preference belongs to this browser. See the AI guide for choosing useful context and reviewing results.

Export#

Under Data, choose Export to download glob-export.glob, a Glob Portable v1 file. It keeps nodes, notes, tasks, schedules, tags, colours, hierarchy, summaries and project/list organisation. Web and the Linux CLI can import it as separate copies. The file is unencrypted and built in the browser; keys and operation history are excluded.

Read import and export for the contents and limits of the download. Keep export and account deletion separate: downloading a file does not sign you out or delete the account.

Security controls#

Add recovery key is available when your account has no recovery wrap. You can keep working and return to it later. Enter your current Sync passphrase, choose Continue enrollment, save the one-time key separately from this device, then check I saved this key somewhere safe → Finish enrollment. Cancelling changes no account keys. Enrollment keeps the passphrase, account key, identity and document keys. When enrolled, Settings confirms the status; it cannot show the same key again. See sync recovery.

Rotate identity keys and the Generation field with Revoke are advanced account-key controls. Rotation changes the identity keys used by the account. A generation is a numbered version of those keys. To revoke a particular older generation, enter its number and choose Revoke. These controls do not change the password you use to sign in.

If a rotation was interrupted, choose Rotate identity keys again to resume it. If Glob reports that an earlier rotation cannot be resumed, contact [email protected] before trying another rotation.

Lock stops the current sync session and removes the saved key used to reopen it. It leaves the browser's notes in place. The next load asks for the sync passphrase again. If the workspace remains visible after pressing Lock, reload it to return to the passphrase screen.

Sign out asks whether to remove this account's notes from this browser. Glob first tries to send pending changes. If some changes or note keys remain only here, it asks a second question and describes what would be lost. Cancel that question to keep working and sync first. See sign-out warnings before choosing to discard anything.

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