Settings

Overview

Settings (/settings) is organised into fifteen sections grouped under three sidebar headings: You, Capture, and System. A few sections appear only when their feature is enabled on your install. Changes apply according to each section's rules; some require an app restart before they take effect.

You

Account

Subscription status and plan details, referral code, billing management (opens the web portal for invoices and plan changes), the current device's registration state with one-device conflict handling, and sign-out.

Capture

Capture

Configure which monitors participate in capture and which audio devices are recorded. Adjusting monitors or audio devices typically requires a restart so the capture pipeline can reinitialise cleanly.

Document sources

Choose the folders Overshow watches for local document indexing, the file types it includes, and any directory exclusions. Nothing is indexed until you turn the feature on and pick at least one folder.

Mail sources

Connect mail as a knowledge source. Apple Mail is read locally and does nothing until you grant Full Disk Access; Google Gmail and Microsoft 365 / Outlook use read-only OAuth grants and stay inert without one. Overshow stores bounded excerpts, metadata, and derived reply state rather than full message bodies. Google controls remain hidden from general users while Google OAuth verification is in progress.

Privacy

Built-in protections and exclusion categories that limit what Overshow retains or processes (finance, health, password managers, not-suitable-for-work content, private browser windows, remote-desktop surfaces, protected domains, and sensitive system apps). Pause and resume controls live here. A prominent Privacy notice link opens the current public disclosure for connected-provider access, use, storage, sharing, protection, retention, and deletion.

Connections

Approve, scope, and revoke local apps that request access to your data. Each client gets a one-time token reveal on approval, and a recent-activity feed shows what it has read.

Captured apps

The user-managed allow-list for apps, backed by the encrypted local database. App saves hot-reload the running capture policy. Built-in deny rules for sensitive apps, private browser windows, and protected domains always take precedence over user choices.

Website exclusions

Category toggles for finance, health, not-suitable-for-work content, and always-on password managers, plus a custom domain exclusion list. Category and custom domain exclusion changes apply after save.

Notifications

Meeting notification preferences: the system notification permission, heads-up alerts for upcoming calendar meetings, detection of ad-hoc meetings, blocked-transcription warnings, and summary-ready alerts. The live meeting panel's auto-show and pin behaviour is controlled here too. Auto-show is reserved for a new meeting, an environmental block, or a capture failure; routine idle capture status does not repeatedly place the panel over your work. On a notched display the compact island remains attached to the cut-out, while Keep on top controls a panel parked at a corner.

System

Local model

Read-only runtime state for the on-device language model, the embedding worker, and other local AI surfaces. The on-device language model gates chat and intelligence features; embeddings, transcription, voice activity detection, and speaker labelling can still use the local helper when chat is disabled.

Skill export

Export a portable skill bundle of your reviewed knowledge. The preview shows the exact plaintext file map before anything is written, honours profile and candidate exclusions, and warns when the destination folder is cloud-synced.

AI clients

Connect MCP-capable AI clients (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, and others, plus a custom option) to your memory through the read-only Memory MCP integration. Available on Pro and Enterprise, including the trial. Each client requires explicit approval; you choose its history limit, optionally grant source detail, set redaction preferences, and can revoke it at any time. A cloud client sends its queries and returned snippets to its provider.

Updates

Check for updates, download, and install. Native update prompts land here.

App

General behaviour: open at login and the configurable Quick Ask global shortcut, which opens Ask and focuses the input.

Data

Where your captures live: the local encrypted database on this Mac, what is stored, the plan history window, and retention behaviour. The explicit reset local data action deletes the encrypted database after a typed confirmation; there is no server-side copy to restore from.

After changing Capture

If capture behaves oddly after changing devices, quit Overshow fully and reopen so services restart with the new configuration.