Settings

Overview

Settings is where you look after your account: your profile and photo, the defaults new bookmarks, recordings and resources start with, your subscription, your phrase colors, and the mobile app. Open it from the account menu at the top right, under Settings. It is laid out the way the mobile app's Settings is: a list of areas on the left, and the area you choose beside it. On a narrow window the list fills the screen and each area opens on top of it, with a back arrow in its header.

Profile

Your photo, your name, your email address, your community, the day you joined, and whether your account is active.

• Photo — Upload Photo (or Change Photo) opens a small menu. Choose Photo takes an image from your computer into the cropper, where you can zoom, pan, rotate and flip it before it is saved as a 256×256 square. Remove Photo takes it away again and shows your initial instead.
• Name — press Edit in the header, change your first and last name, and press Save; Cancel (or the back arrow) leaves them as they were. Your name appears in invitations, chat and the community calendar.
• Community — the community the app opens on. If you belong to more than one, this is a picker, and choosing another reopens the app there.
• Account Status — Active or Inactive. The dates behind it are on the Subscription screen.

At the foot of Profile, Delete Account removes your account and your data: bookmarks, private recordings, practice history and profile. Recordings you shared with your community stay, without your name attached. While you have an active subscription the button is disabled; cancel the subscription first.

Preferences

The defaults new things start with. Each switch saves as you flip it, and changes nothing already made.

• Bookmarks — Mark as "Not Reading" by default: a new bookmark starts as study only, rather than a commitment to read in the synagogue.
• Recordings — Always visible to my communities: a new recording is shared with your communities rather than kept to yourself.
• Resources — Always visible to my community: a new Library resource starts out shared.
• Send Emails — whether you want an email when you receive a direct message, and whether you want news and updates from Virtual Tikkun. (Emails are not sent yet; your choice is kept for when they are.)

Subscription

The state of your subscription in a sentence or two (a free trial and when it ends, the plan and its price, a renewal or end date, a payment problem), followed by the actions: Subscribe Monthly or Subscribe Annual, Switch plan, Cancel subscription or Resume, Keep current plan when a switch is scheduled, and Manage billing & invoices. On a monthly plan a badge shows what the yearly plan would save. The mobile app shows the same subscription but sends you here to change it.

Phrase Colors

The highlighting for the 20 trope (cantillation) phrase groups. Each trope mark represents a melodic phrase, and color-coding them helps you see the musical patterns as you study. For each group you choose a background color from a palette of 20 named colors, or a custom one; the underline is derived from it. A choice is saved as soon as you make it, and the mobile app shows the same colors. Reset in the header puts every group back to its default.

Beside the list, a live preview shows your colors on a real column of Torah text, greyed outside the aliyah: a sample reading (Eikev, aliyah 1) by default, or one of your bookmarks, with arrows to step through its columns. On a narrow window the preview opens from a Preview button instead.

Mobile Notifications

The push notifications the mobile app will send: a master switch, then five kinds (an invitation received, an invitation answered, a direct message, practice reminders, community chat). They are the phone's settings, kept here too so you can set them from a keyboard. Nothing is sent yet; your choices are saved for when it is.

Donate, Mobile Sign-In and My Progress

• Donate is in the account menu, after Feedback: a gift to Virtual Tikkun through Upstart, our fiscal sponsor.
• Mobile Sign-In — a QR code that signs you in to the mobile app without a password: press Generate QR Code, then scan it from the app's Sign In screen.
• My Progress — your practice sessions, total time, day streak and days practiced, and your recent learning sessions.