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Tap ⋯ to the left of the box (or press ⌘, on a keyboard). Settings are stored on your device. The defaults below apply to new installs; changing a setting keeps your choice.

Appearance

  • Light or dark: System (follows your iPhone), Light or Dark.
  • Theme: Grey (the default), Beige or Salmon, each with its own dark version.
  • Font: Carlito (the default), a soft font similar to Calibri, SF Pro (the iPhone’s own font), or SF Mono, a typewriter-style font. Times and lined-up columns stay in typewriter style either way.
  • Text size: 14 to 30 points.
  • Line spacing: Compact fits more on screen, Normal, or Airy (the default) for easier reading. The sample text shows the difference as you switch.
  • On iPad, the text sits in a comfortable reading column in the middle of the screen.

Reading comfort

  • Use system text size (on by default) follows Settings → Display & Brightness → Text Size instead of buff’s own size.
  • Focus fade shows older output in a quieter colour so the latest command stands out.
  • Tags under notes (on by default): notes and todos read as plain words, with their people and projects on a quiet line below. See How tagged notes read.

Input

  • Command completion: the line of suggestions while you type /, @ or #.
  • Return key sends (hardware keyboard): when off, Return adds a new line and you save with the Send button.
  • Tag hints after a capture: offers tag @jane-doe? when a note mentions someone you’ve tagged before.
  • Tips for typing commands directly: after you use @buff, an occasional tip shows the command it ran, to help you learn the shortcuts.
  • Week starts on: System (your iPhone’s setting), Monday or Sunday, for /week, /cal and digests.

Capture from anywhere

Short how-tos for the share sheet, Siri, Back Tap and the Action button. See Capture from anywhere.

AI

  • AI commands: on or off (off until you turn it on).
  • Default for /ask: on-device or Claude.
  • Claude API key: add or remove your key.
  • Auto-clean new entries (Claude): tidies each note’s wording in the background after you save it.

See AI features.

Vault

Where your notes are and their iCloud sync status, the same as /sync. See Your notes folder.

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