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Settings and Preferences

Open Settings from the gear icon at the bottom of the left sidebar, or with Cmd + , (Mac) / Ctrl + , (Windows). The Settings panel opens as a dialog box with sections listed down the left side.

Account

Manage your Conspecta identity:

  • Email and password with a path to reset both
  • Multi-factor authentication (MFA) with TOTP support for an extra layer of protection
  • Subscription notice and a link to your plan

Turn MFA on once your account is established; it adds a one-time code at sign-in. Use any standard TOTP authenticator app (Authy, 1Password, Google Authenticator).

General

Tune the basics of how the app behaves for you:

  • Time format between 12-hour and 24-hour clock
  • Date format with options for locale default, US (MM/DD/YYYY), EU (DD/MM/YYYY), and ISO (YYYY-MM-DD)
  • Navigation preferences for the left sidebar
  • Measurement units for length, mass, and volume
  • Currency for order pricing

Notifications

The Notifications tab is a matrix: each notification category has its own toggle for in-app delivery and its own toggle for email delivery. Categories include:

  • Approvals for review requests waiting on you
  • Mentions when you're @-mentioned in Notes
  • Team invitations when you're invited to a team
  • Project additions when you're added to a project
  • Orders you follow (subscriptions) for status changes on tracked orders
  • Inventory alerts for low stock and expiration
  • Usage alerts for compute usage warnings

In-app delivery is the baseline channel and is locked on per category so you can't accidentally silence yourself. Email is off by default; flip it on per category if you also want to be notified by email. Transactional emails (invitations, security alerts) always send regardless of the email toggles.

You can also configure quiet hours to suppress in-app and email notifications during a window each day (evaluated in your local timezone). To review the orders you follow, open the Orders workspace and apply the Orders you follow filter.

Usage

Inspect your team's monthly compute usage and history.

  • Subscription bucket progress with reset date
  • Purchased bucket balance when applicable
  • The Compute Jobs list with every job your team has run, including type, duration, status, and usage
  • Export CSV for the full job log

See Compute usage for the full compute model.

Storage

Manage local browser caching and inspect cloud-storage usage:

  • File cache toggle to enable or disable
  • Cache limit for total cached file storage
  • Max file size for individual cached files
  • Storage breakdown by category, including Notebooks, Data Tables, and Models
  • Cloud storage quota for your project's server-side storage usage

See Cache and storage for more detail.

Export

Run project exports and watch them complete:

  • Export All Project Data for the bundled per-project download
  • Raw Images for a separate microscopy-images archive
  • Per-workspace exports for one workspace at a time
  • Export All Projects when you own multiple projects

The export job queue in this tab shows each export's status as it processes. See Share and export for what each export contains.

Keyboard Shortcuts

A live reference for the current shortcuts in the app, covering global, navigation, and editor shortcuts. See Keyboard shortcuts for the printable version.

About

Version information and app details. Useful when reporting a bug or asking for support.

Tip: All settings save automatically. Changes take effect right away. There's no apply button.

Delete Your Account

The Delete Account button at the bottom of the Account section in Settings lets you permanently delete your Conspecta account.

When you confirm, your account is scheduled for deletion with a 30-day grace period:

  • During the 30 days nothing is removed yet. Sign back in at any time and use the banner at the top of the app to cancel.
  • After 30 days deletion is permanent and cannot be undone. Your sign-in is removed, so the same email can register a fresh account later.

Permanent deletion removes:

  • Your profile, including your name, photo, cover image, and bio
  • Every project you own, with all of its samples, images, notes, figures, sequences, inventory, and files
  • Your personal templates, sessions, devices, and notification history

A few records are kept for legal compliance (for example, financial records and controlled-substance audit logs), but your name and email are replaced with an anonymous placeholder in all of them, so they no longer identify you.

Own a team? If you're the owner of a team that has other members, the deletion dialog lists each one and lets you hand ownership to another member right there, so the team always has an owner. A team with no other members is deleted along with your account. If a team you own has an active subscription, cancel the subscription first.

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