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title: Settings
description: Every page in Goldfish's Settings, and what each control does.
---

Settings opens from the chat panel or the tray icon. The sidebar lists the
pages below, with a Quit Goldfish button and the app version at the bottom.

## Account

Manage your subscription and account.

- **Signed in as**: the email of the signed-in account. Signed out, this
  page shows a Sign in button instead.
- **Plan**: Free, Goldfish Pro, or Founding member. Founding members have
  full access, on the house.
- **Manage subscription**: opens the billing portal (shown on a paid plan).
  Otherwise the button reads **Upgrade to Pro** and opens checkout.
- **Change password**: current, new, and confirmed new password. Signed in
  with Google? There is no password to change.
- **Sign out**.

## Privacy

- **Accessibility** (macOS): shows whether the permission is granted. It is
  required, this is how Goldfish reads on-screen text to build your memory.
  A Re-grant button appears when the grant is missing or broken.
- **Microphone**: shows the microphone permission status. Only needed when
  voice dictation is on.
- **Delete all data**: permanently deletes your entire Goldfish memory,
  database, and identity. You type "yes" to confirm, and there is no undo.
- The page also explains the privacy model, with the same diagram shown on
  the [Privacy](/privacy) page here in the docs.

## Appearance

Customize text, the top bar, and fish behavior.

- **Aquarium text size**: scales messages, suggestions, notifications, and
  composer text, from 100% (default) to 150%.
- **Aquarium position**: where the bar lives on screen. Top (notch, the
  default), left edge, right edge, bottom edge, bottom-left corner, or
  bottom-right corner. Edges rest as a thin line, corners as a small box.
- **Open on hover** (default on): open the aquarium when the cursor presses
  against its screen edge. When off, open it by clicking the bar, the fish,
  the Goldfish key, or the tray icon.
- **Auto-hide top bar** (default off): hide the bar until the cursor presses
  against the panel's screen edge.
- **Dim top bar when not focused** (default off): lets the glass fall to its
  dimmer look when the bar is not focused. May lower energy use. Takes
  effect after a restart.
- **Dock fish in aquarium**: calls the fish back to the chat bar.

## Identity

Your personal profile, the one Goldfish uses to personalize responses and
write in your voice. Edit it directly here, or ask Goldfish in chat to
update it. Changes take effect on the next retrieval. Goldfish also
refreshes it from your recent activity about once a week.

## Memory

The people, projects, and topics Goldfish has picked up from your activity,
as browsable wiki pages. Built automatically.

- **Filter chips**: all, person, project, topic, tool, org.
- **Page view**: each page shows a summary, the write-up, connected pages,
  and when the subject was last seen.
- Something off? Ask Goldfish in chat to correct it.

## Notifications

- **Proactive messages** (default on): the morning brief, the end-of-day
  wrap, occasional context tips, and scheduled reminders. Turn this off and
  Goldfish sends nothing unprompted; chat keeps working as usual.

## Community

Links to the [communities](/community): Discord, Slack, and Reddit, plus
the creators' LinkedIn and X profiles.

## MCP

Connect other AI apps to your Goldfish memory. With **Connect AI apps
automatically** on, Goldfish adds itself to apps like Claude, ChatGPT,
Cursor and Claude Code. Turn it off to remove Goldfish from them, or off
and on again to reconnect an app. For anything else, this page has the
command to add as a local stdio MCP server, with a Copy button. Details on
the [Connect AI apps with MCP](/guides/ai-clients) page.

## Bug report

- **Report a bug**: opens the bug report form.
- **Open logs folder**: opens Goldfish's local logs. Including logs in a
  report helps pin the bug down faster.

## Shortcuts

Each shortcut row has a key display (click it to record a new key) and an
on/off toggle.

- **Activate goldfish** (default on): the Goldfish key. Right Option on
  Mac, right Shift on Windows, right Command on Japanese keyboards.
- **Chord** (default on): the fallback chord, Cmd+Shift+G by default.
- **Voice dictation** (default off): the dictation key, fn (globe) by
  default on Mac. Turning this on is what makes the microphone permission
  relevant.
- **Sound effects** (default on): ambience and a chime during inline
  rewrites, and a tick when dictation starts and stops.

The full defaults table lives on the [Shortcuts](/reference/shortcuts)
page.

:::note
Using fn (globe) as the dictation key on a Mac: macOS also acts on globe
taps itself. For clean double-taps, set "Press globe key to" to Do Nothing
in System Settings, or use the left Control chord instead.
:::

## Tutorials

- **YouTube**: opens the [tutorials playlist](/guides/video-tutorials).
- **Replay onboarding**: runs the interactive tutorial again from the start.

## Release notes

What changed in each version of Goldfish, newest first.