# Settings, tab by tab

> Settings has seven tabs: Appearance, Schedule, Timer, Shortcuts, Account, System and Support. Open it with the gear in the title bar. Type in the search box to find any setting, and point at the info icon beside a label to see what it changes. Changes apply at once, and most follow your account to your other computers.

- Page: https://dabadoro.com/docs/settings/
- Applies to: Dabadoro 1.2
- Last updated: 2026-10-28

## Search and info hints

The search box at the top of Settings finds any setting by name or by a word it relates to.

![Settings with timer typed in the search box, and the matching settings listed with the tab each one is on. Example data.](https://dabadoro.com/images/app/v120/dabadoro-settings-search-light-v120-1200.webp)

**In this picture**

1. **Search settings**: Type a name or a word it relates to.
2. **A result**: Its label and what it changes. Choose it to open it.
3. **Its tab**: Where the setting lives.

*Settings, searched for timer. Example data.*

`Esc` clears the search, and a second press closes Settings. Point at the info icon beside a label for a short hint. Some hints draw a small picture of the setting.

## Appearance

The theme, the clock widget on the dashboard, the undo message, zoom and the keyboard focus outline.

### Theme

How Dabadoro looks. The floating timer follows it.

- **Default**: Dark
- **Range**: Dark or Light
- **Where**: Settings > Appearance

### Widget style

Daba or a plain clock face in the dashboard corner.

- **Default**: Daba mascot
- **Range**: Daba mascot or Minimal analog
- **Where**: Settings > Appearance, Clock widget

### Show clock widget

Shows the mascot or clock on your dashboard. Click it to open the [AI Command Centre](https://dabadoro.com/docs/ai-command-center/).

- **Default**: On
- **Where**: Settings > Appearance, Clock widget

### Show in fullscreen

Keeps the widget on screen in both fullscreen views.

- **Default**: Off
- **Where**: Settings > Appearance, Clock widget

### Widget size

Makes the mascot or clock larger.

- **Default**: 100%
- **Range**: 100% to 200%
- **Where**: Settings > Appearance, Clock widget

### Show undo message

A short message with an Undo button after each change. `Ctrl+Z` works either way.

- **Default**: On
- **Where**: Settings > Appearance, Messages

### Zoom

Makes everything in the app larger or smaller. Also `Ctrl+=` and `Ctrl+-`.

- **Default**: 100%
- **Range**: 28% to 200%
- **Where**: Settings > Appearance, Accessibility

### Show keyboard focus outline

Draws a ring around the control you reach with Tab.

- **Default**: Off
- **Where**: Settings > Appearance, Accessibility
- **Since**: 1.2

## Schedule

New in 1.2. How the day is laid out, what the schedule draws, and the dashboard layout.

### Schedule view

Columns that fit your window, one list, or one period. See [schedule views](https://dabadoro.com/docs/schedule-views-and-layouts/).

- **Default**: Period columns
- **Range**: Period columns, One-day list or One period at a time
- **Where**: Settings > Schedule
- **Since**: 1.2

### Minimum column width

Fewer columns show once one would be narrower than this.

- **Default**: A fifth of your screen's width
- **Range**: Or your own, 200 to 800 px in steps of 20
- **Where**: Settings > Schedule, Column width
- **Since**: 1.2

### Show current time line

A red line marks the current time on your schedule.

- **Default**: On
- **Where**: Settings > Schedule, Display

### Fold empty hours

Hides runs of two or more free hours in the one-day list.

- **Default**: Off
- **Where**: Settings > Schedule, Display
- **Since**: 1.2

### Show a week strip

Seven days above the schedule. The calendar button turns it on too.

- **Default**: Off
- **Where**: Settings > Schedule, Display
- **Since**: 1.2

### Show tracked time

A green line beside the hours marks the time you tracked.

- **Default**: On
- **Where**: Settings > Schedule, Display
- **Since**: 1.2

### Dashboard layout

One tab bar on the left, or the timer, schedule and lists side by side. Side panels resize from 260 to 560 px.

- **Default**: Classic
- **Range**: Classic or Timer, Schedule, Tasks and Habits
- **Where**: Settings > Schedule
- **Since**: 1.2

| Button | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| Reset to defaults | Puts every choice on this tab and both panel widths back to how they started. |

## Timer

The floating timer's look and behaviour, and the way into the focus timer settings. Every setting on this tab is new in 1.2.

### Floating timer style

From a small clock to a full card. Try them on the [floating timer page](https://dabadoro.com/docs/floating-timer/#styles).

- **Default**: Standard
- **Range**: Minimal, Standard, Bar or Detailed
- **Where**: Settings > Timer, beside the preview

### Show the floating timer

On top of other windows while a session runs in the background. It carries the **Pro** mark: it is a Pro feature, open to everyone while plans are not on sale.

- **Default**: On
- **Where**: Settings > Timer, Behaviour

### Show while paused

Keeps the floating timer on screen when the clock is paused.

- **Default**: On
- **Where**: Settings > Timer, Behaviour

### Details

How the floating timer's panel opens: on hover, with a button, or never.

- **Default**: Hover
- **Range**: Hover, Button or Never
- **Where**: Settings > Timer, Behaviour

### Fade when not in use

Turns see-through 4 seconds after the pointer leaves.

- **Default**: Off
- **Where**: Settings > Timer, Behaviour

### Fade strength

How much of the timer stays visible once faded.

- **Default**: 55%
- **Range**: 20% to 80%, in steps of 5
- **Where**: Settings > Timer, Behaviour

### Colour

The ring, dot and progress line. Breaks keep their own colours.

- **Default**: Theme accent
- **Range**: Theme accent, Task colour, Habit colour, Reward colour, Done colour or Alert colour
- **Where**: Settings > Timer, Look

### Clock size

A regular or large clock. Minimal always uses the regular one.

- **Default**: Regular
- **Range**: Regular or Large
- **Where**: Settings > Timer, Look

### Activity name

The task or habit after the state word on the floating timer.

- **Default**: On
- **Where**: Settings > Timer, Look

### Progress ring

The ring that fills as the set goes by.

- **Default**: On
- **Where**: Settings > Timer, Look

| Button | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| Timer settings: Open | Opens the focus timer settings: 25, 5 and 15 minute defaults, the alarm sound and its volume. **Session durations (min)** and **Maximum (min)** are in minutes. **Progressive focus** and **Cycle** carry the **Pro** mark. See the [focus timer guide](https://dabadoro.com/docs/focus-timer/). |

> **Note:** Pro features need a pass the app gets from our server. On the free plan it lasts 7 days, so connect at least once a week. Without a valid pass, a Pro row says **Connect to the internet to use this.** If we switch a feature off for a while, it says **Switched off for now. Try again later.**

## Shortcuts

Every keyboard shortcut, and whether its key shows next to its button.

### Keyboard shortcuts

Press a key in a field to change it. Every default is on the [keyboard shortcuts page](https://dabadoro.com/docs/keyboard-shortcuts/).

- **Default**: 15 shortcuts
- **Range**: Any key, with Ctrl, Shift or Alt. The zoom keys are reserved.
- **Where**: Settings > Shortcuts

### Shortcut hints

Shows or hides the key next to a button in the app.

- **Default**: Shown for 11 of 15
- **Range**: Shown or hidden, per shortcut
- **Where**: Settings > Shortcuts

## Account

Your profile, your plan, your organisation and the data in it. Log out and Reset account data sit together under Log out and reset, at the end of the tab.

| Part | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| Profile card | Your name, username, level and XP bar, completed focus, top habit streak and total XP. |
| Manage account | Opens your account page in the browser: name, email, password and security. |
| Plan | Your plan and what it includes. Until paid plans go on sale, the free plan lists what Pro includes, with no button, and says **Pro and Max are coming soon.** Once they are on sale, it offers **Team and Education plans** and **Upgrade**, which open the website. A paid plan shows its status, such as when it renews, and the **Ads off** or **Ads on** chip, which opens Show ads on the Support tab. For a plan paid through Paddle, **Manage plan** opens Paddle's billing portal in your browser: update your card, download invoices or cancel. |
| Organisation | **Join an organisation** takes the code your team or school gave you. The organisation's owner then sees your display name and username. A member sees the organisation's plan and can **Leave** it, losing the plan it gives. The owner holds one of the seats and cannot leave. They see how many seats are used, make an invite code with **Make a new code**, and see the members, each with **Remove**. To add seats, write to contact@dabadoro.com. |
| Log out | Logs out of the app and your browser. If the server refused some changes, it asks first: **Keep them on this device** or **Delete them and log out**. |
| Reset account data | Clears tasks, habits and history from your account. It needs a connection. |

> **Watch out:** Reset account data cannot be undone. Your account stays; its contents go.

## System

Sync problems, updates, the release notes and the first-run guide.

| Part | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| Sync | Shows only when the server refused a change. Each row offers **Try again** or **Use the cloud copy**. See [sync and accounts](https://dabadoro.com/docs/sync-and-accounts/). |
| Updates | Your version, such as Dabadoro 1.2.1, and a button that checks for a newer one and installs it. |
| Get early updates | Under Updates, while you are signed in. On Pro and Max, a switch, off by default: new versions before everyone else, sometimes with rough edges. On the free plan, the Pro mark and **Upgrade**. Until paid plans go on sale, it says **Coming with Pro and Max**. |
| What's new | Changes in each update, newest first. The same list is on the [changelog](https://dabadoro.com/changelog/). |
| Guide | Five short steps to your first coins. **Show the guide again** runs them from the start. See [your first five minutes](https://dabadoro.com/docs/first-five-minutes/). |

## Support

Ads on your plan, ways to support the app and the legal pages.

| Part | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| Remove ads | Shows on the free plan. Once paid plans are on sale, **See Pro plans** opens the plans page in your browser. Until then, it says **Coming with Pro and Max**. |

### Show ads

On Pro, Max, Team and Education, in place of Remove ads. Off by default on your plan. Turn it on to see ads and support Dabadoro. An ad you close then stays hidden on all your computers. The Ads on or Ads off chip on the plan card, on the Account tab, opens it.

- **Default**: Off
- **Where**: Settings > Support
- **Since**: 1.2

| Part | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| Coming soon | The merch store's button. Until a new merch store opens, it reads Coming soon and opens nothing. Dabadoro is made by one developer, and the store will be a way to support it. On the free plan, or with Show ads on, an ad can show below it. |
| Privacy Policy | Opens the [privacy policy](https://dabadoro.com/privacy/) in your browser. |
| Terms of Service | Opens the [terms of service](https://dabadoro.com/terms/) in your browser. |
| End-User License Agreement | Opens the [licence for the app](https://dabadoro.com/eula/) in your browser. |

## See also

- [Floating timer](https://dabadoro.com/docs/floating-timer/): The Timer tab, with every setting pictured.
- [Schedule views and layouts](https://dabadoro.com/docs/schedule-views-and-layouts/): The Schedule tab in use.