Profile and appearance
Set your timezone, writing rules and reminders in Settings > Profile, and the look of Jackdaw in Settings > Appearance.
Profile
Open Settings > Profile, change what you need, and save. The line at the top shows today’s date and time in your current settings, so you can check the format.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Photo, Avatar | Your picture in the header. A photo wins over the generated avatar. |
| Site name, Peer name | The name in the header’s top left, and the brain’s peer identity in the header centre. |
| Speciality, What this brain is for | The brain’s kind, and a sentence or two on its main use. Every assistant reads that sentence at the start of each conversation. |
| House style | Your writing rules, in your own words, for example “never use exclamation marks”. Every agent follows them in replies, pages, tables and emails. |
| Timezone (IANA) | What “tomorrow at 3pm” means, when quiet hours start, and how dates show. For example Africa/Johannesburg. |
| Locale (BCP-47) | Date, number and currency format. For example en-GB. It does not change the reply language. |
| Reminder delivery | Telegram or the mobile app. |
| Event reminders from | Which agent’s Telegram bot sends reminders. |
| Live thinking & streaming | Watch the assistant’s steps and the reply as it is written. |
| Thinking effort | How hard agents set to Inherit reason before they answer. Needs live thinking on. Higher costs more. |
Get the timezone right first. A wrong timezone raises no error, but every reminder lands at the wrong hour. You can change it in chat while you travel: “I’m in London this week, update my timezone.”
Appearance
Open Settings > Appearance. Changes apply as you click.
- Mode: Light, Dark or System.
- Color theme: a full palette for the whole app. Filter the list by name.
- Fonts: the interface font, the wordmark, the peer name, and the font for pages and notes, each with its own size.
- Avatar style and Logo: how generated avatars are drawn, and your brand mark.
- Backgrounds: generated backdrops for the menu, header, chat and activity column. Each can be off. They take their colours from the theme.
Pick a theme by contrast. Success, warning and error colours should be easy to tell apart.
Password and sign-in
Change your password, and see or end signed-in devices, on Settings > Logins. See Member and client logins.
Next
- The menu
- Screen help: Profile, Appearance