Settings — General

App-wide preferences: appearance, language, font, license, and where Binderus reads and writes your notes.

Theme

Pick from the built-in themes (light, dark, and several variants) or any theme installed via a theme plugin. Theme changes apply instantly without a restart.

Themes are registered through the plugin system. To add your own, drop a .css file into the themes folder — see Themes for the format.

Language

Binderus ships with 10 localized UIs: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, and Hindi. The Settings modal uses your system language by default; pick a different one here to override.

Main Font

The font used throughout the editor and most of the app UI. Choose any font installed on your system — Binderus enumerates available font families on startup.

Note: Code blocks use a monospace font separate from the main font setting. Configure that under Editor.

License email

If you've purchased a Pro license, enter the email address it was issued to and click Request Pro License. Binderus contacts the license server, verifies the address, and unlocks Pro features locally.

The license check is one-time and offline thereafter — Binderus does not phone home on every launch to validate.

Data Directory

The folder Binderus indexes as your active vault. The current path is shown read-only; click Change directory to switch.

For OS security, Binderus restricts the data directory to a folder under ~/Documents/ (macOS) or the equivalent on Windows / Linux. You can sync that folder via iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, or any other tool that handles file changes.

Tree View — inline expandable hierarchy, like most file managers
Flat List — classic folder-by-folder navigation, one level at a time

Pick whichever model fits your brain — Binderus persists this per-vault.