User preferences

There are fewer personal settings than people expect, and two of them are stored in your browser rather than against your account, which surprises everyone at least once.

A dropdown under the Capable breadcrumb listing Settings, Documentation, Support, What's new and Website. — The Capable breadcrumb opens the menu that leads to settings, documentation and support.

There is no theme setting, no language setting and no date format setting.

#What you can change

A User settings modal with a Show Relative Dates toggle, Email and Slack notification rows, and developer entries for authentication and clearing the cache. — Relative dates, email notifications and the Slack connection all sit in one personal modal.

Setting	Where it is stored	Notes
Show relative dates	This browser only	On, dates read "2 days ago". Off, they use your browser's locale format
Email notifications	Your account, per app installation	All or nothing. Does not affect Slack
Navigation order	Your Atlassian account	Your own ordering, hidden and promoted items
Reset Navigation	n/a	Clears your personal navigation changes. Suite only

Clicking any date flips the relative-date setting app-wide. It is a deliberate shortcut and it catches people out, because nothing indicates the click was a setting change.

#There is no theme setting

Capable follows your Confluence appearance setting. There is no theme, language or date-format option in the app.

Light and dark come from Confluence's own profile menu, and everything Capable draws follows whatever is chosen there.

#Troubleshoot Permissions

Under Settings, Troubleshoot Permissions explains why content is not visible to you, scoped to the space you currently have selected. It is available in every Capable app.

Each check is reported separately, so a missing permission is named rather than left as a general failure.

#A few things worth knowing

Email opt-out is scoped to one app installation, so somebody running both the suite and a standalone Approval app has to opt out twice.
Relative dates and saved heading presets live in the browser, so they do not follow you to another machine.
Reset Navigation clears your own changes only. It does not undo anything an administrator has hidden.

Notifications

The email switch in context.

The Capable byline

Where most of this is reached.

Site settings

What admins control instead.

Fewer than you think. Two live in your browser.