Settings — What Every Page Controls

Three doors to the same window: the gear at the bottom of the Activity Bar, Ctrl+,, or search settings in the Command Palette. The navigation on the left has two groups: Options (app-level settings) and Plugins (one page per plugin). Every change applies instantly and is remembered — there's no "save settings" button here.

General: toggles and the Psi folder

Seven switches, each minding one small thing:

At the bottom sits the Psi folder — where new documents land on first save, and the root of your Psi notes library (see File Management).

Appearance / Keyboard / Editor / About

• Appearance: the Light / Dark segmented control (Ctrl+Shift+T does the same). Per-document typography themes are covered in Themes.
• Keyboard: a live table of every shortcut — one command per row with its keys, read straight from the registry, so it can never drift from actual behavior. Custom keybindings are on the way.
• Editor / About: placeholder pages for now ("Coming soon"). Version info currently lives in the About dialog behind the top-left ρ icon.

Cloud: account, publishing, and sync

The Rho desktop app can connect to the rho.md cloud service (optional — signed out, nothing local is missing):

Signing in: enter your email → receive a 6-digit code → done. No password. The session credential goes into the OS keychain (GNOME Keyring / Windows Credential Manager) — never a plain-text file.

Creating your galaxy: on first sign-in you claim an @handle — your galaxy (home page) address on rho.md. After that, this page becomes your identity card:

• @handle (one-click copy of your page link), with display name and bio edited in place
• An On N star charts · charting M galaxies · K stars stat line (how many star charts hold your galaxy + what your own chart holds)
• Open my galaxy opens your galaxy page inside the app

My documents: the documents you've uploaded — each row shows a status badge (published / unlisted / private), a copy-link button, and inline publish / unpublish. Uploading and publishing are also available from the Command Palette (search cloud).

The rest: a storage meter (shows the percentage left); above the free tier there's an Upgrade to Pro entry (the subscription completes in your system browser; once subscribed it becomes Manage subscription); a Psi sync row shows the last sync time with a Sync now button — what syncs is your Psi index (tags / categories / link relationships), so your galaxy carries across devices; and Sign out at the bottom.

Plugins: one page per plugin

Each plugin in the Plugins group gets its own page, headed by the same Enabled switch — turning it off instantly removes everything the plugin contributes (icons, panels, commands); turning it back on restores it all, no restart needed. The Psi document manager is a built-in capability and has no switch.

Calendar

A month view in the Explorer side bar. Click a date to open (or create) that day's daily note — a lightweight daily-notes flow.

Pomodoro

A focus timer with its own Activity Bar view: a ring of progress plus start / pause / skip / reset. Its settings cover focus length, short/long break lengths, and rounds. Phase changes fire a system notification, and the timer keeps running in the background — switching views doesn't interrupt it.

RHO AI

The built-in AI assistant: chat over your document library, search it, analyze it, and have it author interactive documents for you. Its settings page:

Until a key is configured, the chat panel shows a setup notice — RHO AI is bring-your-own-key by design; the app never routes you to a paid service by default.

Quick reference