# 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.](https://help.gocapable.com/images/4515aa55-8582-471e-b498-e4f707329406.webp)

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.

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## 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.](https://help.gocapable.com/images/898d6433-b654-4d1d-b98d-7d21a72269e8.webp)

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                     |

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**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.

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## There is no theme setting

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

![The Confluence profile menu with Theme selected, showing Light, Dark and Match browser options with Light chosen.](https://help.gocapable.com/images/781814f8-b9e6-40d1-a284-837350fffc20.webp)

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

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## 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.

![](https://help.gocapable.com/images/095c8e3a-b0b5-4918-bdfa-305fb17a2e9f.webp)

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

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## 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.

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## Related

[NotificationsThe email switch in context.](https://help.gocapable.com/capable/notifications.html)

[The Capable bylineWhere most of this is reached.](https://help.gocapable.com/capable/the-capable-byline.html)

[Site settingsWhat admins control instead.](https://help.gocapable.com/capable/site-settings.html)

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_Fewer than you think. Two live in your browser._