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Settings

All of Roam's settings live in one panel. Open it from the ⋯ menu in the top right, or run Open settings from the Command Palette.
The palette also has Settings: [section name] commands that jump straight to a specific section.
Two kinds of settings live here. Preferences and Hotkeys are personal: they only change Roam for you. The rest belong to the graph, and on shared graphs most of them need admin rights.

Preferences: personal display and behavior settings, like brackets around page references, inline reference counts, bullet colors in shared graphs, and experimental toggles such as Better search (Experimental).
Sharing: invite people to the graph, set their roles, and control who can export or view history.
Attachments: every file uploaded to the graph, in the File Manager.
Hotkeys: view and change keyboard shortcuts. See Customizable Hotkeys.
Graph: settings for the whole graph, including Graph History, the Graph Homepage, API tokens, graph size, automatic cleanup of empty daily notes, Semantic search (Experimental) embeddings, and Delete Graph.
Encryption: change the password of an encrypted graph. This tab only appears on Encrypted Graphs.
Account: your email, password, and Delete Account.
Data & Backups: automatic backups, import and export, moving attachments between graphs, and Restore Graph.
Roam Depot: the extension marketplace and settings for your installed extensions.

Installed extensions can add tabs of their own to the panel.
Some sections only show for graph admins, so your panel may look shorter on a graph you don't own.