The app step by step · Chapter 35
Appearance and settings
How nexlore looks, which language it speaks to you in and where it opens for you are all set for your account. They then hold on every device you sign in on, and nobody else sees any of it.
Everything personal sits behind your profile picture
At the top right of the header sits your profile picture, or the first letter of your name until you have one. Clicking it opens the account menu. You can switch the Language right there, and from there you get to My account, the Settings, the About nexlore page and the Commands. At the very bottom you sign out. When something is waiting for you, a proposal or an approval for an AI program for example, a small number appears on the picture, and the entry for it shows up at the top of the menu.
The settings have four tabs. Under General and Look you set nexlore up for yourself, Spaces lists your spaces with their options, and only the operator sees the Server tab. That's where accounts, sign-in, public pages, AI, API and plugins, files, backups, languages and the log live. What belongs to backups and to AI is explained in their own chapters.
How others see you
Under My account, Profile you give yourself a Display name. That's how the others see you everywhere, on comments, in the news and among those who have the same note open right now. In member lists and in the suggestions after @ your user name stands small beside it, so nobody mixes you up. You still sign in with your user name, and if you leave the display name empty, nexlore simply shows that.
Upload a picture takes a photo from your phone or camera. nexlore cuts it to a square and keeps nothing but the picture itself, so neither the place it was taken nor the device. Another picture swaps it, and Remove brings the letter back.
The other tabs of My account come up in other chapters. Under Security you change your password, set up a second factor and sign out in other browsers, after losing a phone for example. Notifications are explained in the chapter News and proposals, and Connections holds API tokens, AI in notes, AI from outside and the calendar subscription.
Where nexlore opens for you
Under Settings, General you decide what nexlore starts with when you open it. The Start page can be The map, Today's daily note, The note opened last or One note that you pick for it. Out of the box it's the map, and the map stays one click away anyway.
The Main space decides where “Today”, quick capture and a new note go when no note is open. When one is open, everything lands in its space. Out of the box that's your first own space you may write in. You set the Language of the interface here as well as in the account menu. English and German come with nexlore, the operator can add more languages, and if you leave the field empty, nexlore follows your browser.
Which day your week starts on, Monday or Sunday, you set right in the calendar under Week starts on. Your account remembers that too. And under Keyboard shortcuts you see every key you've given a command yourself. How to give them is in the chapter Keyboard shortcuts.
Light or dark, font and width
You switch between light and dark with the switch in the header, and on a phone it's in the account menu. Under Settings, Look you can also choose As the system, so nexlore follows your device, and when that turns dark in the evening, nexlore does too. Out of the box nexlore is dark.
You pick one font each for the Interface, the Text of notes and Code. The choice is Inter, Atkinson Hyperlegible, IBM Plex Sans, Literata, Source Serif and JetBrains Mono, or The system's. nexlore brings these fonts along itself, so opening a note asks no other server. The Text size goes from 14 to 20 pixels, 16 out of the box, and the Width of the text is Narrow, Normal, Wide or Full width. A single note goes wide when you put cssclasses: wide among its properties. Every change shows at once.
Your own colours with themes
A theme sets the colours of all of nexlore. Besides the standard one, nexlore comes with seven ready-made themes, namely Deep sea, Forest floor, Ember, Morning mist, Sandstone, Graphite and Plum, and one click is enough to take one. If one is almost right, use Copy and change, and New theme starts from scratch.
In the theme editor you set 15 colours in five groups, namely Surfaces, Lines, Text, Accent and Status, separately for the light and the dark side. nexlore mixes the shades in between, such as surfaces under the mouse, by itself, and while you work the page already shows the new theme. If some text is harder to read on its ground than 4.5 to 1, nexlore tells you. Under Callouts you give single kinds of callout another colour or another symbol, or add kinds of your own, which you then use like [!recipe] in a note.
Save as a file takes a theme along, and Take in a file brings one in. That works with themes from nexdeck too. If you want to show a theme to the others on your server, use Share in the gallery. They'll find it under Shared by others, and as long as you don't, it stays yours.
A space with a colour of its own
Whoever manages a space can give its notes a theme of their own. That's in the space's options under Theme of the notes. A recipe book can look warm and the work wiki sober, and you notice right away where you're reading. Only the notes wear that theme, while the sidebar and header stay in your own.
If you'd rather see your own theme everywhere, switch off Take the themes of spaces under Look.
Your own CSS, if the operator allows it
If you want to decide even more closely how nexlore looks, write your own CSS. That only works once the operator has allowed it under Settings, Server, AI, API and plugins with Allow own CSS, which is off out of the box. Then, under Look, Own CSS, New snippet adds small pieces of CSS, and you switch each one on or off by itself. They only apply to your account, never on public pages or for anyone else.
A snippet like this one draws a line in your theme's accent colour under every second-level heading while you read.
.nn-prose h2 {
border-bottom: 1px solid var(--color-accent-500);
}Every snippet goes through a CSS reader before it takes effect. Ordinary rules, @media and @supports are allowed. Anything that could load something from elsewhere, so url(), @import or @font-face, nexlore turns down and tells you the line.
Lore saysIf the operator takes the permission back later, your snippets stay stored and simply stop working. Once it's allowed again, everything is as it was.