Settings and accessibility

Change a setting.

Press ⌘, to open Settings over the window. Pick a tab on the left, or step through them with ↑ and ↓ when the list has focus. Esc closes it. Every change applies at once.

Also: Kloni → Settings…, or the gear at the top of the library column.

On iPhone the app has its own Settings. See Apple Intelligence on iPhone and Working with your Mac.

General.

Setting	Default	What it does
New maps open in	Canvas	The view a new map starts in: Canvas or Document.
New map style	Built-in	The look blank maps start with. To change it, click Use This Style for New Maps at the end of the Map Style pane. Use Built-in appears here to put it back. Templates keep their own style.
Date format	Absolute	Absolute shows dates as Dec 15. Relative shows them as tomorrow or in 3 days, and as dates past about 30 days.
Apple Intelligence features	On	Turns every Apple Intelligence feature on or off. Shown only on a Mac that can run it.
Daily Brief in Today	On	A short read of what to start with, at the top of Today. It reads only the tasks in Today. Off while the row above is off. See Daily Brief.
Toggle Kloni window	None	A global shortcut that brings Kloni to the front, or hides it when it's already in front. See Record a shortcut.

Appearance.

Setting	Default	What it does
Appearance	Auto	Light, Dark, or Auto to follow your Mac.
Fade controls in full screen	On	In full screen, the top bar, library column and canvas controls fade until you point at them or use the keyboard.

Notes

Setting	Default	What it does
Text contrast	Mid	How strongly note text stands out from the page: Min, Low, Mid, High or Max. Min still meets the WCAG AA readability level.

Document View

These apply to the Document only, and have no effect on the canvas.

Setting	Default	What it does
Reading width	Comfortable	The column's width: Compact, Comfortable or Wide.
Row density	Comfortable	The space between rows: Compact, Comfortable or Spacious. Type size stays the same.
Reading mode	Read	Read, Skim or Actions. See reading modes.
Indent guides	Show	The vertical lines that mark depth: Show or Hide.
Fold triangles	On hover	Always, On hover or Never. With Never, fold with `Space` or by clicking the gutter.

Library.

Setting	Default	What it does
Location	KloniMaps, in Documents	The folder new maps are saved in. Click the folder for Other Folder…, Show in Finder, Copy Path and, away from the default, Use Default Location.
Sync with iPhone	Off	Moves your library to iCloud Drive so Kloni on your iPhone can open it. Asks before anything moves. See Sync with iPhone.

See Find your files for what's in the folder.

Quick Capture.

While Always-available capture is off, the other three rows don't show.

Setting	Default	What it does
Always-available capture	On	The capture shortcut and the menu bar icon. Off removes both and brings the Dock icon back. The Tasks widget's + and the Control Center control still open capture.
Show Dock icon	On	Off runs Kloni from the menu bar alone. The Mac's menu bar (File, Edit and so on) hides with the Dock icon, and the menu bar icon's menu stands in for it.
Promote checkboxes to task nodes	Off	On, each `- [ ]` line in a capture's note becomes a child task of the captured node. Off, the lines stay in the note and still show in Tasks.
Shortcut	`⌘⇧K`	Opens and hides the capture window from any app. If another app already holds it, Kloni leaves the shortcut unset and suggests it here, and the menu bar icon still works.

See Quick Capture.

Record a shortcut

Shortcut and Toggle Kloni window work the same way.

Click the field.
Press the keys you want. Combine a key with ⌘, ⌥ or ⌃; ⇧ alone isn't enough, and function keys work on their own.

Esc cancels the recording. Clear shortcut, the × in the field, removes it, and a cleared shortcut stays cleared.

Shortcuts.

This tab lists every keyboard shortcut, in four tabs: Global, Canvas, Document and Notes. It's for reference: only the two global shortcuts above can be changed. ⌘/ opens it from anywhere, and the Shortcuts page has the same list.

What isn't in Settings.

A map's layout, colors, shapes and type belong to the map. Change them in the Map Style pane (⌥⇧I), and they travel with the map to other Macs, to your iPhone and to anyone you share it with. See Map style.

Kloni also remembers these where you set them, on each Mac:

the library column's width, and whether it's showing;
the Note pane's width;
the Import dialog's Summarize with Apple Intelligence switch, on by default;
your last five commands in the Command Palette.

Accessibility.

Use the keyboard

Every command has a key or a place in the Command Palette (⌘⇧P). The Tasks lists, Search, menus, pickers and dialogs all work without a mouse, and a clear outline marks what has focus.

Tab moves through a panel once you're in it. Esc closes whatever opened last and hands the keys back to the map.

Use VoiceOver

Buttons, panels, dialogs and fields carry labels for VoiceOver. Expand into nodes and the other controls that appear on pointing are also in the Command Palette. A Document PDF export is tagged, so it reads as headings and structure in a screen reader.

Make it easier to see

Priority reads by how many bars are filled, not by color, and a task's state by the shape of its marker.
Text contrast (Settings → Appearance) raises note text up to the highest contrast the theme allows.
With Increase Contrast on in macOS, the controls never fade in full screen.
Node text can be set from 8 to 144 pixels, on its own or for the whole map.

Reduce motion

Turn on Reduce Motion in macOS. A pane docking, a sheet or popover opening, a new node and a finished task leaving its list become a brief crossfade. Everything else, a switch of view included, is instant.

On iPhone text size follows the phone's Dynamic Type, plus a per-phone size from 85% to 175% for the Document and notes. New nodes and folds don't animate under Reduce Motion.

Requirements and privacy.

Kloni for Mac	macOS 13 or later, on Intel or Apple silicon
Tasks widget	macOS 14 or later
Quick Capture control	macOS 26 or later
Apple Intelligence on the Mac	Apple silicon, macOS 26 or later, and Apple Intelligence turned on in macOS. Optional: everything else works without it.
Kloni for iPhone	iOS 26 or later. iPhone only, with no iPad build.
Apple Intelligence on iPhone	An iPhone that has it. Optional.

Kloni has no account, no server and no tracking. Your maps are files in a folder you choose, and they sync only through your own iCloud Drive, if you turn it on. The privacy policy has the details, and it's also under Help → Privacy Policy.

Apple Intelligence uses Apple's on-device model. It runs on your Mac or iPhone, and nothing it reads leaves the device. See Apple Intelligence.

Get help.

The Help menu has Welcome to Kloni, Getting Started (the tour), Application Map, Keyboard Shortcuts and What's New. See Help inside the app.

To report a bug or send an idea, choose Help → Send Feedback…. Include system info adds the app version and macOS version; clear it to leave them out.

For a question, a refund or anything this manual doesn't answer, use the support page.

Settings and access.