General settings

General settings control how your data is displayed throughout Ceum — currency formatting, date and time format, timezone, and the ID prefix for each kind of record. Changes take effect immediately for your account. You'll find everything on the General settings page, grouped into a few sections.

Currency

These choices drive every monetary value you see — in lists, exports, dashboard charts, and invoices. See Currency formatting for the full picture.

Default currency — the currency code (default USD). The picker shows a live preview.
Decimal places — how many decimals to show (default 2, range 0–4).
Thousands separator — comma, period, space, or none.
Currency symbol position — before or after the amount.

A preview line formats 1,234,567.89 with your current selections, so you can see the result before you save.

Language & location

Language — the app's display language. Picking it here saves with the rest of the form; the footer language switcher does the same thing on the fly.
Country — your location, used for region-aware defaults. Optional.

Date & time

Date format — the pattern used to display dates. The default is Automatic (match language), which follows whatever language you picked above; choose an explicit pattern like YYYY-MM-DD to pin it.
Time format — 24-hour or 12-hour clock for displayed times (default 24).
Timezone — your timezone (default UTC).
Show timezone in dates — when on, displayed times include the timezone code (e.g. EST). Default off.

Display

Show count badges — this one lives under Notifications, not here, along with which alert categories appear. With it off, alert indicators show a plain dot instead of a number.
Show keyboard shortcut hints — when on, the bracketed [key] hints appear next to menu items, sidebar entries, and toolbar tooltips throughout the app. Turn it on if you want them; the shortcuts keep working either way. Default off.
Rich text editor — switch description editors between the formatting toolbar and plain Markdown. This preference is stored on your device rather than your account.
Show — how many rows a list puts on a page is set from this selector at the bottom of any table, not from this page. The size you pick is remembered for your account and applies to every list, so you only choose it once.

Display ID prefixes

Each record gets an ID like C-7. You can customize the prefix letter for each kind:

Client — default C.
Project — default P.
Task — default T.
Invoice — default I.
Document — default D.

Each prefix is 1–4 uppercase letters, and all five must be distinct from one another — saving fails if any two collide.

A new prefix applies to new records only. An ID is written once, when the record is created, and stored with it — so a client already called C-7 stays C-7 after you switch the prefix to CL, and the next client you create becomes CL-8. Existing IDs are never rewritten, which is what keeps a C-7 you wrote into an email or an invoice pointing at the same record.

Workflows

Localize formatting

Switch the currency to your local code, pick the thousands separator your region uses, and adjust the symbol position. Save. List columns, invoices, dashboard charts, and exports all follow your new format from then on.

Pick a new prefix scheme

If you prefer different abbreviations (e.g. CL, PR, TS), set each prefix and save. Do it early: records created before the change keep the IDs they were given, so switching on a full workspace leaves you with two prefixes in circulation for the same kind of record.

Tips and edge cases

Privacy mode is a separate toggle. It's not in general settings — see Privacy mode.
Prefixes must be distinct. Save fails if any two collide.
Timezone affects "today" everywhere. Overdue calculations, deadline phrasing on the calendar, and subscription renewals all use your timezone — change it deliberately.
Keep the date format predictable. Use ISO-like patterns (YYYY-MM-DD, DD/MM/YYYY) for clear, reliable results in exports.

On mobile

The mobile app has a General settings screen covering the cross-platform preferences — country, timezone, date format, time format, show-timezone-in-dates, and the full currency block (default currency, decimal places, thousands separator, symbol position) — all synced with your account, so a change here shows up on the web too.

Web-only here: the ID prefixes and the Display toggles (shortcut hints, rich-text editor). In exchange the mobile app adds its own touch settings — edge-swipe Gestures and a customizable bottom Navigation bar — see Mobile navigation.