Settings worth knowing

Open Settings

Settings has a window of its own, with a page for each area in its sidebar. A change takes effect as you make it. There's nothing to save.

1. Click ⋯ at the right end of the toolbar and choose Settings, or press ⌘,.
2. Click a page in the sidebar, such as Appearance.

Change how Chunk looks

Appearance sets the theme, the sidebar and how blocks are coloured on the calendar.

1. Choose a Theme: Light, Dark, or System to follow your Mac.
2. Choose a Sidebar style: Native is translucent, like the sidebars in Finder and Mail, Grain is solid with a fine film grain.
3. Turn on Show task details to show each task's repeat, link and first line of notes under its name. ⌘I turns it on and off.

Colours on the calendar

1. Under Calendar event colours, choose Colour accent for a strip down each event's left edge, or Full block colour to tint the whole block.
2. Under Colour blocks by, choose what your blocks and sessions take their colour from: Task colour, Project or First tag.
3. Leave Grey out finished blocks on to grey out completed tasks and past events. Past tasks you didn't finish keep their colour, so they stand out.

Set your week and your day

Date & Time sets how dates and times read, the day your week starts on, and the hours your calendar focuses on.

1. Choose a Date format and a Time format. System follows your Mac.
2. Choose your Week start, the first day of the Week and Month views. The 5-day view is always Monday to Friday.
3. Leave Set time zone automatically on to follow your Mac, or turn it off and choose a Time zone.
4. Under Day hours, drag the two handles to the start and end of your day. The calendar focuses on those hours and folds the rest away.

Snap to sets the minutes blocks land on when you drag them. There's more in Fill your day from the Plan queue.

Day hours set where Chunk looks for free time when it fits tasks into your day.

Choose how tasks open

1. Open Settings → Tasks & Projects.
2. Turn on Open tasks with a single click to open a task with one click instead of a double click.
3. Leave Read details from new task titles on, and Chunk reads a new task's day, time, repeat, deadline, project or priority from its name. Capture tasks from anywhere shows what it reads.
4. Choose where finished projects go under When a project is completed. Complete a project explains the choices.

Change the language

1. Open Settings → General.
2. Choose a language beside Language, at the foot of the page.

Chunk reads details from new task names in English only for now. In another language, names stay as you typed them.

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