Settings, pane by pane
Settings holds the choices for the whole app, and the choices for the workspace you opened it from. Open it with ⌘, and choose a pane on the left. Each control applies as you change it. Restore Defaults asks first, and most changes can be undone.
- Open
- Superliner ▸ Settings… (⌘,)
- Panes
- General, Editor, Journaling, Keyboard and Workspaces
- Undo
- Edit ▸ Undo for most changes, such as the accent colour and a shortcut
- Stored
- In the app's preferences, never in your notes
General
General has two cards. Appearance holds the look and the text size. Quick Capture holds the shortcut and the menu-bar item.
| Control | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Appearance | System follows the Mac. Light and Dark hold the app in that look. | System |
| Accent color | Chooses one of eight presets: Purple, Blue, Teal, Green, Orange, Pink, Red or Graphite. Custom appears after you change the colours in Customize Colors…. | Purple |
| Text size | The size of note text, from 11 to 28 points. Typing a number or using the stepper sets it. | 15 points |
| Density | Comfortable, Compact or Spacious. Sets the height of each outline row. | Comfortable |
| Indentation | How far each nested level moves right, from 12 to 40 points. | 22 points |
| Motion (Reduce motion) | Turns off Superliner's short transitions. | Off |
| Customize Colors… | Opens the Colors window for the accent, accent fill, selected row and link colours. | Built-in colours |
| Restore Defaults… | Returns text size, appearance, motion, density and indentation to their defaults. Asks first, and can be undone. | Not applicable |
The Quick Capture card has these controls.
| Control | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Open Quick Capture from any app | Turns on the system-wide shortcut. Shows the current shortcut under it. | Off |
| Change… | Records a new combination for the shortcut. Esc cancels. The combination must include Control, Option or Command, and a conflict is named. | ⌃⌥⌘J |
| Restore Default | Puts back ⌃⌥⌘J. It is off when the shortcut is already the default. | Off when already default |
| Show Quick Capture in the menu bar | Adds a menu-bar item. Its menu lists Capture…, then Open with each open workspace, then Quit Superliner. | Off |
Both the shortcut and the menu-bar item are off until you turn them on.
Editor
Editor holds how typing behaves. Its choices apply to every workspace and are stored apart from your notes.
| Control | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Check spelling while typing | Underlines a word that is not in the dictionary as you type. | On |
| Correct spelling automatically | Corrects a misspelled word as you type, following macOS. A code note is never corrected. | Follows the macOS setting until you change it |
| Warn when editing a reference | Shows a notice before you edit a reference, because the change applies to the original note. | Off |
| Convert Markdown as you type | [ ] adds a checkbox and # a heading. **bold**, _italic_ and backticks around text are converted as you type them. | On |
Open insert commands with / | Always on. Type / where a note can take a command. | On, and fixed |
| Open insert commands with \ | Lets a backslash open the command list, as in \date. | On |
| Open insert commands with two backticks | Lets two backticks open the command list. | On |
| Run a typed command when you press Space or type ) | An exact command name, such as \h1, runs when you press Space. A typed ) runs a complete command that it closes. Other spaces are typed. | On |
| Date style | The format the date command inserts: Short, Medium, Long, Full or ISO 8601. Each style shows today's date as it would be inserted. | Medium |
| Time style | The format the time command inserts. Each style shows the time now. | Short |
Journaling
Journaling sets the supertags of day and week pages, and shows where they are kept. Its choices apply to new day and week pages only.
| Control | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Day supertag | The supertag new day pages get. Lists Default (#day), then every supertag in the workspace. | Default (#day) |
| Week supertag | The supertag new week pages get. Lists Default (#week), then every supertag. | Default (#week) |
| Time format | Shows 12-hour or 24-hour from your Mac's setting. Read-only here. | From macOS |
| First day of week | Shows the first day of the week from your Mac's setting. Read-only here. | From macOS |
| Open Language & Region… | Opens the macOS Language and Region settings, where time format and first day are changed. | Not applicable |
| Show Journal | In the Journal card, opens the Journal in the window Settings was opened from. The card says where day and week pages are filed. | Shown when a workspace is open |
Keyboard
Keyboard lists every command with its shortcut, grouped by the menu it is in: File, Edit, Note, Format, View and Go. Change a shortcut here, and the menu and the palette show the new one.
| Control | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Search shortcuts | Filters the list by command name or shortcut. | Empty |
| Show all commands | Adds the commands that have no shortcut to the list. | Off |
| Record Shortcut… (or double-click a row) | Records a new combination for the selected command. Esc cancels. Delete on its own removes the shortcut. A conflict names the other command and offers Replace or Cancel. | Not applicable |
| Restore Default | Puts back the selected command's shortcut. Off, with the reason, when it is already the default. | Not applicable |
| Restore All Defaults… | Puts every command back to its shipped shortcut. Supertag shortcuts stay. Asks first. | Not applicable |
| Export… | Saves your shortcut choices as a JSON file named Superliner Keyboard Shortcuts. | Not applicable |
| Import… | Reads a shortcut file and shows the changes first. Conflicting ones are left out. A checkbox also applies the supertag shortcuts in the file, when it has some. | Not applicable |
Workspaces
Workspaces lists the workspace folders Superliner remembers on this Mac, and holds the actions for the workspace you opened Settings from.
| Control | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Show in sidebar | Lists the workspace in the sidebar's Workspaces section, so you can open it from there. | On |
| Open | Opens the workspace in a window. The workspace Settings was opened from shows Current instead. | Not applicable |
| More ▸ Show in Finder | Reveals the workspace folder in Finder. | Not applicable |
| More ▸ Remove from List | Forgets the workspace in this list. The folder and its notes are not deleted. | Not applicable |
| New Workspace… | Creates a workspace in a folder you choose. | Not applicable |
| Back Up… | Makes a verified backup of this workspace. See Back up and restore. | Not applicable |
| Save a Copy… | Writes an editable copy when the workspace is open read-only. See Saving and recovery. | Not applicable |
| Show in Finder (Markdown export folder) | Opens exports/markdown/ in Finder. | Not applicable |
| Restore Backup… | Restores a backup folder as a new workspace. This workspace is not changed. | Not applicable |
Combine it
- Pick a text size and a density togetherText size and density change the rows and the text together. The palette and pickers grow with the text.
- Give a day page a different supertagJournaling changes the supertag new day pages get, so the Journal follows your choice.
- Put a shortcut on a command you useRecord a shortcut for a command in Keyboard, then find it in the palette, where it is listed with that shortcut.
- Open a second workspace from the sidebarShow a remembered workspace in the sidebar here, and it appears in the sidebar's Workspaces section.
Limits
- Settings are app preferences, not part of the notes or the Markdown copy. A backup carries only view preferences: the sidebar's supertag order, supertag colours and the Journaling day and week choices.
- Time format and first day of week come from macOS. Change them there.
- When a shortcut is already in use, Superliner names the command that has it and asks you to replace it or cancel.