Settings guide

What the main settings do, in the same order as the app

Open Settings with the gear that appears when you move the mouse. The Search box at the top finds any setting by name, and the menu next to it sets the language of Settings and of the board.

Clock

Setting	What it does
24-hour clock	Shows 13:00 instead of 1 PM. Key `H`.
Devanagari digits	Shows १२:३० instead of 12:30. Appears only when the language is Hindi.
Seconds	Adds the seconds to the clock. Key `S`.
Separator	A gap, a blinking colon or a steady colon between the hours and minutes.
Share anonymous usage statistics	Which features are used, and any errors. No personal data. See Privacy.
Reset all settings	Puts every setting back to how it came, and deletes the phrases and reminders you wrote. It asks first.

Board

Setting	What it does
Show	Clock and board taking turns, Clock only, or Board only.
Show the ticker	The one-line strip under the clock.
The date	Today's date on the ticker.
Phrases	Your phrases take turns on the ticker.
Weather	A weather line on the ticker. See Weather.
Location	The city the weather is for.
Degrees	°C or °F.
Date order	Month first or day first, where the language allows both.
Change the ticker every	How long each line stays: 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute or 5 minutes.
Show the board for	How long the full board stays: 10, 20 or 45 seconds.
Board size	How much of the screen the full board fills: Small, Normal or Large.

Phrases

Setting	What it does
New reminder	A line the board shows at a time you choose.
New phrase	A line of your own for the ticker and the board.
New category	A group of phrases you can switch on and off together.
Reminder repeats	3 times, then gone; Until you touch it; or Once only.

Motion and sound

Setting	What it does
Clock flips	No animation, Only the digit, Every hour or Every minute. See Choose how the digits flip.
Roll length on the clock	One flip, or a short roll through the numbers.
Roll length on the board	A short or a long roll through the alphabet.
Sound	The click of the cards, and the scare sounds of scary themes. Key `M`.
Volume	How loud the sound is.

Screen

Setting	What it does
Themes	Opens the theme library. See Themes.
Menus	The color of Settings and the library: Follow the board, Dark or Light.
Brightness	From 20 to 100 percent. Keys `↑` and `↓`.
Font	The typeface of the cards, from the ones on your computer.
Dim when idle	Dims the clock after 10 minutes without activity.
Protect the screen	Moves the picture slightly over time to help prevent burn-in.
Keep the screen awake	Keeps the computer awake and the screen on while the clock is on screen. On from the start on a computer; on iPhone and iPad it starts off. See Keep the screen awake.
Prank remote	Shown only while a theme with a scare is on. See The prank remote.