# Settings overview

> Open Settings from the gear in the header and find your way around its seven tabs: Appearance, Account, Organisation, AI, Templates, Data and Advanced.

Source: https://plexiidesk.com/help/settings-overview
Section: Settings and integrations > Look and feel
Plans: All plans
Updated: 2026-10-15

Settings is where you change how PlexiDesk looks, sounds and behaves, manage your account and AI, and reach your Vault, backups and connected apps. It opens as a panel from the header, with seven tabs along the top. This page shows where everything is and links to the guide for each part.

## Before you start

- Settings is on every plan. A few parts show only when they apply to you, such as the organisation controls for admins.
- Most settings are kept on this computer, and the panel says so at the bottom: **Preferences saved locally.** If you use PlexiDesk on more than one computer, set your look, sounds and keys on each one. Your account details, and the few settings that belong to your account, follow you when you sign in.
- Changes take effect straight away. There is no Save button.

## Open Settings

1. Click the gear at the right-hand end of the header. Its tooltip says **Appearance settings — theme, accent colour and font**.
2. Settings opens on the **Appearance** tab.
3. Click another tab to see its settings.

To close Settings, press `Esc`, click the **×** at the top right of the panel, or click anywhere outside it.

> **Tip:**
> With a tab selected, the left and right arrow keys move between tabs. Press `Tab` to move from the tabs into the settings below them.

## The tabs

| Tab | What is on it |
| --- | --- |
| **Appearance** | **Theme** (Light, Dark, Auto and three styled themes), **Accent** colour, and **Theme studio…** for fonts, text size, density, the desk's background and more. See [Light, dark and colour themes](https://plexiidesk.com/help/settings-appearance) and [Theme studio: fonts, text size, density and canvas look](https://plexiidesk.com/help/theme-studio). |
| **Account** | Signing in or out, your name, and your account details. See [Account settings](https://plexiidesk.com/help/settings-account). |
| **Organisation** | Your organisation, and a way into managing it. See [Organisation settings and switching workspaces](https://plexiidesk.com/help/settings-organisation). |
| **AI** | Where your AI runs (credits or your own key), local AI enrichment, your API keys, how speech is transcribed, the Attention switch, **Assistant autonomy**, and the websites Plexii may act on. See [AI settings](https://plexiidesk.com/help/settings-ai). |
| **Templates** | Desk templates you can apply to the desk you have open. See [Desk templates](https://plexiidesk.com/help/desk-templates). |
| **Data** | The **Vault**, **Backup & data**, **Documents sync**, and **Privacy** and **Help & support**. See [Back up and restore your workspace](https://plexiidesk.com/help/data-backup-restore) and [Privacy settings and what leaves your computer](https://plexiidesk.com/help/settings-privacy). |
| **Advanced** | **Connected apps**, **Browser extensions**, **Sounds**, **Haptics**, **Canvas navigation**, **Voice command (mic button)** and **AI model**. |

## Find a setting

| To change | Go to |
| --- | --- |
| Light or dark, the accent colour | **Appearance**. See [Light, dark and colour themes](https://plexiidesk.com/help/settings-appearance). |
| The font, the size of everything, how roomy the app is, the desk's background | **Appearance** > **Theme studio…**. See [Theme studio: fonts, text size, density and canvas look](https://plexiidesk.com/help/theme-studio). |
| Sound effects, typing clicks, volume | **Advanced** > **Sounds**. See [Sounds and haptics](https://plexiidesk.com/help/settings-sounds-haptics). |
| How dragging, scrolling and zooming move the desk | **Advanced** > **Canvas navigation**. See [Canvas navigation settings](https://plexiidesk.com/help/canvas-navigation-settings). |
| AI credits or your own key | **AI**. See [AI settings](https://plexiidesk.com/help/settings-ai). |
| How much Plexii may do without asking | **AI** > **Assistant autonomy**. See [Assistant autonomy](https://plexiidesk.com/help/settings-assistant-autonomy). |
| A local AI model on your computer | **AI** > **Local AI enrichment**. See [Enrich documents with a local AI model](https://plexiidesk.com/help/settings-local-ai). |
| The model Plexii uses | **Advanced** > **AI model**. See [Choose the AI model](https://plexiidesk.com/help/plexii-models). |
| The mic button and voice replies | **Advanced** > **Voice command (mic button)**. See [Voice command settings](https://plexiidesk.com/help/settings-voice-command). |
| Web apps in your side menu | **Advanced** > **Connected apps**. See [Add and use connected apps](https://plexiidesk.com/help/connected-apps). |
| Chrome extensions in Plexii's browser | **Advanced** > **Browser extensions**. See [Add Chrome extensions to Plexii's browser](https://plexiidesk.com/help/browser-extensions). |
| Saved passwords | **Data** > **Vault**. See [Store passwords in the Vault](https://plexiidesk.com/help/vault). |
| Backups | **Data** > **Backup & data**. See [Back up and restore your workspace](https://plexiidesk.com/help/data-backup-restore). |

## Common questions

**My settings are different on my other computer.** Most settings are kept on each computer separately, as the panel's **Preferences saved locally.** says. Set them again on the other one.

**I cannot find a setting that used to be on a different tab.** Use the table above. Connected apps and browser extensions are on **Advanced**, and the Vault is on **Data**.

**Settings closed while I was choosing a colour.** Clicking outside the panel closes it. Theme studio opens over Settings, and clicks inside it are safe.

## Related

- [Light, dark and colour themes](https://plexiidesk.com/help/settings-appearance)
- [Theme studio: fonts, text size, density and canvas look](https://plexiidesk.com/help/theme-studio)
- [Sounds and haptics](https://plexiidesk.com/help/settings-sounds-haptics)
- [AI settings](https://plexiidesk.com/help/settings-ai)
- [Canvas navigation settings](https://plexiidesk.com/help/canvas-navigation-settings)
- [Privacy settings and what leaves your computer](https://plexiidesk.com/help/settings-privacy)