Themes, Settings & Languages

Personalising Krillnotes — appearance, preferences, and language.

Settings

Open Settings from the Edit menu (⌘, on macOS, Ctrl+, on Windows/Linux). Settings are split into two tabs: General and Appearance.

General

Settings dialog, General tab, showing: Home Folder, Undo Limit, Language, Sharing Indicator Mode

  • Home Folder — where Krillnotes stores workspaces, identities, themes, and other data. Default is ~/Krillnotes/. Click Browse… to change it.
  • Undo History Limit — how many undo steps to keep per workspace (1–500, default 50). Higher values use more memory.
  • Language — choose from 7 languages (see below).
  • Sharing Indicator Mode — controls whether permission dots appear in the tree:
    • Off — never show permission dots
    • Auto — show dots only when the workspace has peers
    • On — always show permission dots

Appearance

Settings dialog, Appearance tab, showing: Theme Mode toggle, Light Theme selector, Dark Theme selector, Manage Themes button

  • Theme Mode — choose Light, Dark, or System (follows your OS preference).
  • Light Theme / Dark Theme — select which theme to use for each mode.
  • Manage Themes… — opens the theme manager to create or edit custom themes.

Themes

Krillnotes supports custom colour and typography themes. The built-in light and dark themes are always available; you can create your own alongside them.

Managing themes

Click Manage Themes… in the Appearance settings to open the theme manager.

Manage Themes dialog showing built-in themes (read-only) and custom themes with Set Light / Set Dark / Edit / Delete buttons

  • Built-in themes cannot be edited or deleted. The active themes are marked with a checkmark.
  • For custom themes: Set Light / Set Dark assigns it to a colour mode, Edit modifies it, Delete removes it.
  • + New Theme — create a theme from the default template.
  • Import from file… — load a theme from a JSON file.

Editing a theme

Themes are defined as JSON with separate light-theme and dark-theme sections. Each section can contain colors (OKLCH format), typography (font family, size, line height), and spacing objects.

Theme editor showing JSON structure with colors, typography, and spacing sections

Click Save to apply the theme immediately.

Light vs. Dark

Light Mode Dark Mode

Languages

Krillnotes is available in 7 languages:

LanguageCode
Englishen
German (Deutsch)de
French (Français)fr
Spanish (Español)es
Japanese (日本語)ja
Korean (한국어)ko
Chinese (简体中文)zh

Changing the language

Open Settings → General and select your language from the dropdown.

Language dropdown in Settings showing all 7 language options

The entire UI updates immediately — menus, dialogs, buttons, and messages all switch to the selected language.

The app UI displayed in Japanese, showing translated menus and dialog text