Settings

The Settings card holds the app's own preferences, none of which change what a CookBook cooks. Open it with the gear at the right end of the status bar. It has four tabs, and a fifth, SYSTEM, on Windows.

GENERAL

Setting	Does
THEME	System follows your operating system; Light or Dark always. Ctrl+T switches too, and the choice is remembered.
NEW CANVAS	The side, in pixels, that a new CookBook's or loose Ingredient's canvas starts at (32 unless changed). The creation form can still change it; past 512 the card warns that cooking many assets that size is slow.

PERFORMANCE

WORKER THREADS: how many threads heavy work uses (reading and writing archives, cooking, exporting, building models). Auto uses two thirds of the machine's logical processors; a custom value picks a number, up to the machine's. The change applies from the next operation.

The thread count never changes what is written: the same book and seed give the same bytes at any count. If the NFTY_THREADS environment variable is set, it wins and the control is locked, saying so.

PUBLISHING

Where the export card's Upload sends a collection. See Upload to IPFS.

Setting	Does
UPLOAD TO	Local IPFS (default): IPFS Desktop or Kubo on this machine, no account. Pinata: the hosted pinning service, with your own key.
IPFS API	The local node's RPC address, http://127.0.0.1:5001 unless you changed your node's.
PINATA KEY	Paste the key's JWT and press Save. It goes to your system's credential store (Windows Credential Manager, the macOS keychain, or the Secret Service on Linux through secret-tool) and nowhere else; the card shows only •••• and the last four characters. Forget removes it. Without a credential store nfty refuses to save and says what to install; it never falls back to a file.
CONNECTION	Whether nfty can reach the chosen service now. Checked when the card opens, when the provider or key changes, and on Test connection.

DATA

Setting	Does
KEPT IN	Where nfty's .nfty state folder is, or that this session keeps nothing on disk.
RECENT FILES	Clear recents forgets the opening screen's list. No file is touched.
WINDOWS, VIEWS	Reset returns viewer windows to their default sizes and the editor to its default grid and rail.
DATA FOLDER	Open folder opens the .nfty folder.

What each file in that folder holds is in Settings files.

SYSTEM (Windows only)

Which files Windows opens with nfty, for your Windows user. It has its own page: Open files with nfty on Windows.