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Settings: Preferences

Preferences are personal choices: how Row-Bot introduces itself, how it opens, and when it tidies memory overnight. Appearance, the page after it in the General group, sets how Row-Bot looks on this device.

Settings: Preferences in Row-Bot.
Preferences groups Identity, Opening Row-Bot and the overnight tidy-up.

Where To Find It​

Open Settings, then choose Preferences in the General group, or search for it with Find a setting.

Identity​

  • Name is the assistant's name.
  • Personality sets the assistant's default tone; a preview shows how it sounds.
  • Learn new skills lets Row-Bot write and refine skills from your work. Turn it off to keep the skill library exactly as you set it.

Opening Row-Bot​

Open in chooses whether Row-Bot opens in its own app window, in your browser, or asks each time.

Overnight Tidy-Up​

Dream Cycle tidies memory while you are away: it merges duplicates, enriches thin memories and infers missing links. Choose the Hours it may run (start and end hour). Its runs appear in Monitor's History, and Home › Knowledge can run it at any time.

Appearance​

Settings › Appearance applies to this device only, so a phone and a computer can look different:

  • Appearance: System (follows your device), Light or Dark.
  • Colour theme: Blue, Teal, Violet or Amber.
  • Density: Comfortable or Compact.
  • Reduce transparency turns off the glass effect.
  • Workspace layout › Panel sizes restores panel sizes without changing conversations or the look.

A preview shows the result as you choose. In the command palette, "dark mode", "light mode" and "follow the system appearance" change it in one step.

What Moved​

  • Updates (background downloads, Restart to update, Repair and the update channel) is its own page in the System group. See Updates.
  • Import from another assistant (Hermes Agent or OpenClaw) is on Settings › Data, with back up and restore. See Operations, Data, And Recovery.

What Is Saved​

Preferences are global local settings. Appearance is saved on each device. Existing conversations keep their own model, profile and approval choices.

Privacy And Safety​

These settings stay on your computer. Dream Cycle works on local memory and uses your chosen model when it needs one, which may be a hosted provider.

Control-Level Reference​

The generated Settings Controls reference lists every searchable setting on this page with its deep link, search keywords, and any dependency or security notes.

Troubleshooting​

  • If the app opens in the wrong place, change Open in and restart Row-Bot.
  • If Dream Cycle never runs, check that it is on and that its hours include times your computer is awake.
  • If the look differs between devices, that is expected: Appearance is saved per device.