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Appearance and themes

Switch between light and dark, pick a theme, or build your own colors and fonts — applied across the whole app.

Kaizendex's colors and fonts are controlled by themes. You choose how the app looks — light or dark, which palette, which fonts — and it applies everywhere: sidebar, cards, buttons, charts.

You'll find it all in Settings → Appearance. On desktop, open Settings from the gear icon next to your name at the bottom of the sidebar; on phone, tap Settings in the bottom bar. Then pick Appearance.

Light, dark, or system

The mode toggle decides which theme is showing:

  • System — follows your device's light/dark setting and switches automatically.
  • Light — always your light theme.
  • Dark — always your dark theme.

You keep two themes active at once — one for light, one for dark. Mode just picks which slot is on screen. So you can set a warm light theme and a deep dark theme, leave mode on System, and Kaizendex flips between them with your OS.

Picking a theme

Each slot (light and dark) shows a library of themes to choose from:

  • Built-in themes ship with the app and are always available.
  • Your own themes appear alongside them once you create any.

Click a theme to make it the active light (or dark) one. The whole app re-colors instantly.

Two built-ins go further than color: Aurora Glass (light) and Nocturne Glass (dark) place a soft gradient wallpaper behind the whole app and turn the sidebar, top bar, and cards into frosted, see-through glass.

Backgrounds

You don't need a glass theme to get the glass look. In Settings → Appearance → Background, pick a wallpaper — or upload your own photo — and it appears behind the entire app while your current theme's panels turn into frosted glass on top. Choose None to go back to the flat look. Your background syncs across devices like the rest of your appearance settings.

Making your own

To customize, duplicate a built-in theme — that gives you an editable copy you own. In the theme editor you can change:

  • Colors — each part of the interface (background, surfaces, text, the accent color, borders, and more) is a named slot you can recolor.
  • Fonts — pick from the bundled font set for the app's body, monospace, and display text.
  • Region tweaks — nudge just one area (say, a darker sidebar) without touching the rest.
  • Icons — swap any of the app's built-in icons for this theme: folders, notes, the property-type icons, and menu icons. Open the Icons panel, search for the one you want to change, and pick an emoji, a built-in icon, or your own image. Leave one alone to keep its default, or hit Remove to reset it. A light theme and a dark theme can each have their own set.

There's also a raw JSON editor for power users and for pasting a theme the AI generated for you — it validates as you go and rejects anything malformed.

Completion celebration

Checking something off — a routine item, a todo row, any checkbox — makes the box pop with a small fireworks burst of confetti, in your theme's colors. On your phone you can also swipe a checklist row (or a whole todo card) sideways — either direction — to complete it without aiming for the checkbox.

If you'd rather tick things quietly, turn off Celebrate completed to-dos here in Appearance. The effect also stays off automatically when your device asks for reduced motion — your saves are never affected either way.

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