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Handshake is monochrome plus one rose accent – but inside that frame, nearly everything is a dial. Settings live behind the gear in the left rail (or the command palette), and every choice is saved per network.
Appearance
Four themes: dark (the default), light, system (follows your OS), and a hand-tuned Paper theme in two flavors – soft ivory, or a vintage sepia with a touch of grain. Pick the interface font (system, serif, or mono), the text weight, and the density of list views.
App scaleis a real slider from 50% to 300% – the whole interface zooms live as you drag. And if motion isn't your thing, reduce motion tones the springs down app-wide.
Board
Settings → Board controls what the map shows and how it breathes: goal cards on or off, the default warmth for new ties, introduced-by lines, backlink lines, whether cards grow with inbound mentions, card spacing for the auto-layout, and how far the zoom will travel. The card fade section handles dimming inactive people – off by default, with a strength dial when you want it.
Notes
Choose where notes open by default – slide-in panel, floating window, or tab – plus the starting size for floats and panels, the autosave delay, and your auto-highlighted keywords with their colors.
The keyboard
The command palette is the spine of the app: Ctrl+P (or right-click anywhere) reaches people, views, networks, snapshots, and settings. Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z run the global undo timeline. Ctrl+Shift+D writes a debug report.
Developer
A small honest corner: an ambient status line, automatic debug reports on errors, and a redacttoggle that masks your vault path and platform in those reports – useful when you're sharing one in a bug report.