Customization

AuroraDocs is extensively customisable. Most settings are per-account, with some workspace-level overrides.

Dark & light mode

Go to Settings → Appearance → Theme and choose Dark, Light, or System (follows your OS setting). The default is dark mode.

Accent colour

Go to Settings → Appearance → Accent colour. Available colours:

• 🟤 Copper (default)
• 🟣 Purple
• 🩷 Pink
• 🔴 Red
• 🟠 Orange
• 🟢 Green
• 🩵 Teal
• ⚫ Gray

You can set different accents for dark and light mode.

Workspace appearance

Each workspace can have its own background gradient or image.

1. Go to Settings → Workspace → Appearance.
2. Choose a gradient preset or upload a custom image.

Built-in gradient presets include Copper Night, Bronze Aurora, Ember Mist, Cinder Glow, and Copper Twilight.

Default background for every page and object

Owners can pick a single background that applies everywhere — both static pages (Home, Tasks, Calendar, …) and individual objects.

1. Go to Settings → Workspace → Backgrounds.
2. Use the top row, Workspace default, to set the default. It saves under the workspace scope.
3. Per-page rows still let you override the default for any specific page. Per-object backgrounds (set from the object header) override both.

Precedence (most specific wins): per-object → user override for the page → workspace override for the page → workspace default → no background. Removing any override falls back to the next layer down.

Extend behind the right panel

Each background image (workspace default, per-page, or per-object) has a Stop at right panel / Extend behind right panel toggle in the same popover that hosts opacity, blur, fade, and scroll. When extend is on, the image spans the full viewport so it shows behind the right panel.

For the panel content to stay readable on top of a busy image, lower the right-panel overlay's opacity. The wallpaper button in the right-panel header opens an opacity + blur popover, and you can also adjust the same setting from Settings → Appearance → Right-panel overlay. Owners can save the choice as a workspace default; members can keep a personal override.

Custom CSS

Go to Settings → Workspace → Custom CSS to inject CSS into the workspace. Changes apply instantly.

/* Example: wider content column */
.ProseMirror {
  max-width: 800px !important;
}

Sidebar rainbow mode

Enable Sidebar rainbow in Settings → Appearance to colour sidebar items by object type, making it faster to scan a dense workspace.

Pinned widgets

Pin Recent pages and Favorites to the sidebar via Settings → Sidebar. Drag widgets to reorder them.

Navigation placement

Sidebar, right-panel, pinned-object, recent-page, tag, and object explorer preferences live under Settings → Preferences. Some choices are device-local; when Local folders are enabled, Aurora can restore non-secret layout preferences from the Local files root.

Dates and language

Set your preferred language, date behavior, and timezone in Settings → Preferences → Dates and language. The timezone is used for calendar "today", Home due-today grouping, daily notes, and reminder evaluation.

Keyboard shortcuts

All key bindings are listed in the Keyboard shortcuts reference. Some can be customised in Settings → Shortcuts.

Command palette

Press ⌘K to open the command palette. Search pages, run commands, switch workspace, or jump to any section of the app — all from the keyboard.