Settings

Choose how NotaBene looks, which language it speaks, and how it works for you.

Open Settings

Choose NotaBene ▸ Settings… or press ⌘,. Settings opens in a window of its own: you can move it, leave it open beside your notes, and close it with ⌘W. It is listed in the Window menu. It remembers which section you were in and its size.

There is no Done button: every setting takes effect as soon as you change it.

Tap the gear in the navigation bar. Settings opens as a sheet over the app.

Light or Dark

NotaBene follows the system's appearance. To choose for NotaBene alone, open Settings ▸ Appearance and pick Light or Dark. The whole app follows your choice — its colors, the paper the editor writes on and the attachments in your notes — whatever the system is set to.

The colors of your headings are set in Settings ▸ Appearance too, once for the whole library.

English or Czech

NotaBene can be in English or in Czech, whatever language your device uses. Choose it in Settings ▸ Language. Everything follows the choice at once, Settings' own pages included.

The language your recordings are transcribed in is a separate setting; see Recordings and transcripts.

Accessibility

Text size — text scales with the size you set for Dynamic Type in the system's settings.
VoiceOver — buttons and controls throughout the app have labels that VoiceOver reads.

Haptics — the device taps back when a touch and hold succeeds, when you tick off or add a task, when a recording starts or stops, and when one of those fails. Ordinary buttons do not tap. It follows the system's haptics setting.

What else is in Settings

Sync — the sync status, the last sync, Sync Now, and Start Over. See Your library and sync.
Notes — the Default Notebook, where notes made outside a notebook go.
Tasks — the note new tasks go into, the times new tasks are due by, and the statuses a task can have.
Home — the working hours Home counts your free time in.
Editor — how much large pictures are shrunk, whether / and @ open their menus, and what the note's outline shows.
Callouts — each callout type's color and icon, and up to three types of your own.
Mail — your Outlook and IMAP mailboxes.
Search — how many notes this device has in its search index, and building the index again.
Import & Export — importing from Evernote and exporting the whole library.
Keyboard Shortcuts — every typed marker and key the app answers to.
Help — the app's version, the welcome tour and this guide.

Swipe — which commands a swipe reveals in each list, and on which side.