Appearance and preferences

A small set of preferences that change how Claos looks and how dates show up across the product. These settings are per user — they follow you into every workspace you belong to.

Open Settings → Appearance to find them.

Theme

Three options:

Light — light background, dark text.
Dark — dark background, light text.
System — follows your operating system. Useful if your OS switches between light and dark with the time of day; Claos will switch with it.

Pick one and the change is instant. The choice persists across visits.

Editor font size

Three sizes for the block editor:

Small — 14 px, fits more on screen.
Default — 16 px, balanced.
Large — 18 px, easier reading.

This applies to page content in the editor. Navigation, sidebars, and other surfaces keep their default sizes.

Time zone

Pick your time zone from the dropdown — it lists every zone your operating system supports. The choice affects how Claos shows times across the product: due dates, AI Schedule runs, inbox timestamps, and presence times.

If you travel often, switching your time zone here keeps everything readable.

Date format

Four ways to render dates:

Jan 1, 2026 — month name abbreviated.
01/01/2026 — MM/DD/YYYY, US numeric.
01/01/2026 (DD/MM) — DD/MM/YYYY, European numeric.
2026-01-01 (ISO) — year-first, machine-friendly.

Pick the format that matches your habit. Changes apply across the product immediately.

Time format

Toggle between 12-hour (2:30 PM) and 24-hour (14:30). Applies everywhere a time renders.

First day of week

Sunday or Monday. Affects calendar views and any weekly grouping you'll see in the inbox or project dashboards.

Tips and gotchas

These preferences are per user, not per workspace. Changing your time zone or theme changes your view; teammates see times in their own time zone.
Date and time format changes are display-only — the underlying timestamps don't change, just how they're rendered.
The accent colour for Claos is fixed per theme. There's no colour picker on this page.
The theme is persisted in your browser as well as your account, so the right theme loads the moment a page renders rather than after sign-in completes. If you sign in on a new device, you may see your last device's theme for a moment before it syncs.
The first-day-of-week setting affects how calendar views group weeks, but not how dates themselves are written. Date format is the separate setting.