Display settings

These settings change how Colletta looks and behaves for you, and only you. Open Editor settings from your account menu at the bottom of the sidebar, or from quick open. Your settings are saved to your account as you change them, so they follow you to other browsers and devices.

The dialog has six sections: Writing, Layout, Appearance, Accessibility, Search, and Tips and tours. Choose one from the list beside the settings (above them on a phone), with the mouse or the arrow keys. The dialog opens at the section you looked at last.

Writing

Setting	Default	What it does
Default view	Live	the view documents open in: Live, Source or Split (see Live, Source and Split views)
Formatting toolbar	on	shows the toolbar above the text
Slash menu and emoji	on	the / menu and : emoji suggestions
Hide markdown syntax away from the cursor	on	Live view only: turned off, every symbol shows and the formatting stays

Choosing a view with the buttons above a document also makes it your default.

Layout

Setting	Default	What it does
Show the outline	off	opens the outline with every document
Word count	on	shows words, characters and reading time
Full-width text	off	uses the whole window width instead of a reading column
Line numbers in Source and Split view	off	numbers the lines of the markdown; Live view never shows them

Appearance

Setting	Choices
Theme	System (default), Light, Dark
Text font	Sans serif (default), Serif, Monospace
Text size	Small, Normal (default), Large
Code colors	Default, Soft, High contrast
Accent color	Blue (default), Teal, Violet, Green, Orange, Graphite

The text font and size apply to Live view and the Split preview. Source always uses a monospace font, so the markdown lines up.

The light theme has a warm, paper-like background. The dark theme has a dark background with a lighter accent.

Choose an accent color

The accent color is the color of links, primary buttons, focus rings, switches that are on, and selected items. Pick one under Accent color and change it whenever you like.

• It’s only on your screen. Other people keep their own accent.
• It isn’t your cursor color. The color others see for your cursor and name is chosen for you.
• The accent doesn’t change status colors, callouts, code or collaborator colors. To adjust the colors that carry meaning, use Color vision.
• The sign-in pages always use blue.

If you picked a different accent, your screen won’t match the screenshots in these guides exactly.

Accessibility

Setting	Default	What it does
Color vision	Default	Red-green safe or Blue-yellow safe colors for states, added and removed text, callouts, code and (blue-yellow) comment highlights, with a preview; see Accessibility
Screen reader mode	off	Live view keeps markdown symbols visible, so what’s read out is what’s in the text
Announce others’ edits near my cursor	off	in screen reader mode, says what someone else typed or removed on the lines around your cursor
Announce who joins and leaves	off	says when someone opens or leaves the document you’re in
Line styles in “Who wrote what”	off	underlines each author’s text in its own style as well as its own color

Accessibility explains each of these, with tips for screen reader and keyboard use.

Search

Setting	Default	What it does
Related pages in search	on	below the word matches, also shows pages about the same thing in other words; see Related pages

Tips and tours

Setting	Default	What it does
Show tours	on	a short tour of the main screens for newcomers, and of new features when they arrive, at most one a day
Show the welcome tour again		replays the welcome tour, even when tours are off

Tours don’t run on narrow screens.