Settings, Themes, and Layout

MojoPad believes in options. Settings (⌘,, or the ⚙ toolbar button) keeps them in panes you pick from the sidebar — Appearance, Editing, Links & Pages, Journal, Dates & Time, Web Clipper, AI, AI Agents, Files & Backups, Security, Shortcuts, Updates and License. Here is what you'll find in them, by subject:

• Theme — a flat, warm set led by Clay (the default: calm cream, charcoal ink, a confident terracotta accent) and its night sibling Clay Dark. The rest keep their own colours in the same clean, flat style — in the light, Ivory (near-white pages, warm cream chrome, one confident red — the very light look task-manager fans know), Panda (charcoal toolbar and rail, white paper, red links — for fans of a certain beloved bear), Daylight, Sepia, Blossom, and Linen; after dark, Midnight, Graphite, Forest, Sage, Ember, Harbor, Cobalt (deep-navy, cyan-lit), Harvest (orange headings and green bold, after NotePlan), and Matrix (neon terminal-green). Two Voodoo themes (light and dark) are the heirlooms of the set — deliberately plain, native Mac looks in honor of a beloved ancestor: silver toolbar, plain white page, honest Mac-blue links, system font throughout. Also under View ▸ Theme. Turn on Match system appearance and MojoPad follows macOS — pick one theme for day and one for night, and they trade places when your Mac does. Choosing a theme by hand switches back to manual.
• Page Layout — Classic (full bleed), Inset (a soft frame), or Floating (your page as a card), plus the Default page width — Small, Medium, Large, or Full — that new pages open at. Any page can override it from the reading-width control on the format bar, and the choice is remembered per page. Also under View ▸ Page Layout.
• Interface — overall chrome size (Compact / Comfortable / Roomy) and Page Zoom (90–150%), both also in the View menu.
• Toolbar — which tools ride the top bar and which dock in a left icon rail, in your order. See "The toolbar, top or docked left" below.
• Links — whether wiki links open in place or in a new tab (⌘-click does the opposite, either way).
• Editing — default font and text size for your writing; spell checking; word completions (suggest words you've already used as you type); Markdown-aware paste; your external text and image editors.
• Security — the encrypted-content re-lock timer. See Encryption and Privacy.
• Web Clipper — the bookmarklet. See Page Links Everywhere.
• Documents — whether WikiWords highlight on new documents, and whether filing a page into a folder reveals that folder (off by default — see Folders in the sidebar).
• Locale & Dates — time zone, daily-note name format (with a live preview), the default daily-note template (a built-in, or Custom for your own), date display, 12/24-hour clock. See Daily Notes.
• AI — chat model and embedding model. See Local AI.

Settings apply live — no restarts, no Apply buttons. (The Settings window wears your theme too, and switches the moment you pick a new one.)

The toolbar, docked left (or up top)

Out of the box, MojoPad's tools live in a left icon rail — a slim column down the left edge, the top bar reduced to navigation: clean lines. The toolbar is yours to arrange though: in Settings ▸ Appearance ▸ Toolbar, drag any tool between the rail and the top bar, and drag within a zone to set the order — "Everything on top" restores the classic single-bar look with one click.

A few pieces stay put on purpose: the document switcher, the back/forward arrows, and the search-and-command pair keep their places in the top bar — they're the steering wheel. Rail icons show their names in a tooltip beside the rail, and when the Pages panel is folded away, its reopen tab hangs off the rail's right edge.

Focus Mode

View ▸ Focus Mode (⇧⌘F) hides everything — toolbar, page list, palettes, status bar — leaving just your page, centered and quiet. Press Esc, ⇧⌘F again, or the small ✕ focus pill in the top-right corner, and the workshop reappears exactly as you left it. (The pill is there so nobody reaches for the window's close button to leave focus — that one quits the app.)

The panels' door handles

Every side panel can be put away without visiting a menu. Hover the divider beside the Pages panel or the palettes and a small chevron appears — click it (or double-click the divider) and the panel slides away, its width remembered. While it's hidden, a slim tab peeks from the window edge; click it and the panel returns exactly as it was. View ▸ Hide/Show Side Panels (⇧⌘\) puts both away and back in one stroke. On the split pane, AI drawer, and outline dividers, double-click keeps its older meaning: reset the width to the default.

Keep the manual inside your own wiki

Want the documentation searchable next to your own notes? Help ▸ Add the Manual to This Wiki… drops every chapter into a single page called MojoPad Manual, with a table of contents at the top. From then on it turns up in search results beside your writing, you can link to it, and you can scribble in it. Delete that one page whenever you're done with it — nothing else is touched.

Prefer a file? The manual is itself a MojoPad document: Help ▸ MojoPad Manual opens it, and File ▸ Export Document writes it out as PDF or ePub.

Two Macs, one set of preferences

Working on a laptop and a desktop? MojoPad ▸ Settings File ▸ Export Settings… writes your preferences to a small file — put it in whatever folder you already sync between machines. On the other Mac, Import Settings… and everything takes effect immediately: theme, fonts, layout, spacing, shortcuts, and the rest.

What deliberately stays put: your licence, your open documents, each machine's window positions, any search key you've pasted in (it's a credential, and this file is one you're about to put in a synced folder), and the permissions you've granted for linked files — which folders MojoPad may reach on disk is a decision made at each keyboard, and carrying it across would approve folders the other Mac was never asked about. Everything else travels.