Windows, scrollbars and backgrounds
Switch between floating windows and full screen, move and resize windows, pick a scrollbar style, and give the sidebar or any page its own background.
Three more things in Settings → Appearance change how the app feels: whether pages float as windows or fill the screen, what your scrollbars look like, and the backgrounds behind the sidebar and your pages. Your theme picks a starting point for each one. Anything you set here wins over the theme, and it works with built-in themes too.
Windowed or full screen
Under Layout, tick Windowed layout to see your pages as rounded windows floating over your background picture, with a little space around them. Untick it for full screen: pages go edge to edge, like Notion, with a thin line between the sidebar and the page.
While Windowed layout is on, three sliders appear on a computer: Roundness (how round the window corners are), Gap (the space between the sidebar and the page) and Side gap (the space at the left and right edges of the screen). Reset next to a slider gives the choice back to your theme. On a phone you only get the checkbox — full screen makes every screen run edge to edge.
Moving and resizing windows
This works only in the windowed layout, on a screen wider than a phone. In full screen, nothing moves.
- Move a window: drag the sidebar by its top row, or a page by its top bar. Pages without a top bar, like the calendar, move by their very top edge — the pointer turns into a hand there.
- Drop it anywhere. A window stays exactly where you let go, even partly off the screen. Its top edge always stays on the screen, so you can always grab it again.
- Snap a page: drag it to the top edge to fill the screen, or to the left or right edge to fill that half. The sidebar does not snap.
- Fill and restore: double-click a page's top bar.
- Resize it: drag any edge or any corner.
The sidebar always stays on top of your pages, so it can never get lost behind one.
A narrow window switches to a narrower layout, the same one you see on a phone. Make it wider again and the full layout comes back. Make the sidebar very narrow and it shows just its icons.
Put a window back
Each window has a home: its normal place. While you drag, a dashed outline shows where home is. Bring the window close to it and it clicks into place — the outline turns solid. Let go there and the window is home again.
When a window is away from home, a Put back button (a curved arrow) appears: in the sidebar's top row, in the page's top bar, or in the window's top-right corner on pages without a top bar. Click it and the window slides home. Changed your mind? Click Undo on the message that pops up.
Each app keeps its own place
The page window remembers a place per app: Chats, Dashboard, Calendar, Folders, Collections, the Library and so on. Move the window on Folders and Calendar stays where it was. All collection pages share the Collections place, all folders share the Folders place. The sidebar has one place for everything.
Kaizendex remembers where you put each window on this screen. A laptop and a big monitor each keep their own arrangement; a screen size you have not arranged yet borrows the closest one you have. To start over, go to Layout in Appearance and click Reset next to Window positions. This puts every window back home, in every app. Changed your mind? Click Undo on the message that pops up.
Scrollbars
Every scrollbar in the app uses one style. The default is Dots: a dotted bar that is always there but faint. It gets stronger when you point at the area it scrolls, and darker when you point at the bar itself.
Under Scrollbars, pick a style from the tiles: Dots, Pill, Groove, Capsule, Stripes or Thin. Each tile shows a small preview.
You can choose when each direction shows, separately for Horizontal (sideways) and Vertical (up-and-down) bars:
| Setting | The bar shows |
|---|---|
| Always | All the time (the default) |
| On hover | While your pointer is over the area |
| While scrolling | Only while you scroll, then it fades |
Resting strength sets how faint the bar is while you are not pointing at it. Slide it up if you lose track of the bar, or down if it distracts you.
On a phone, or any touch screen without a mouse, you see your device's normal scroll indicator instead. In Firefox, the patterns (like the dots) don't show, and the vertical setting decides for both directions.
Sidebar and page backgrounds
Under Backgrounds you can give the Sidebar and Pages a background of their own:
- Theme — whatever your theme brings (the default).
- Colour — a theme colour (it follows your theme) or any colour you pick, with a Strength slider.
- Image — a picture from the built-in set (backgrounds and banners) or your own upload, with a Strength slider to make it faint and a choice to Cover, Fit or Tile it.
- See-through — the panel goes clear so your app background picture shows through, without blur. The Tint slider keeps a little of the page colour if you want text to stay easy to read.
The slider changes the look as you drag. To remove a background, pick Theme — an Undo button shows for a few seconds.
One page, its own background
A single collection, entry, folder or view can have its own background. Open the page, point at the top and click Add banner (or Change banner), then open the Background tab. It uses the same choices as above. To remove it, pick Theme — an Undo button shows for a few seconds.
The most specific setting wins: the page's own background, then your Appearance pick, then your theme. Clear the page's background and it goes back to the next one down.