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Settings
The knobs, honestly labelled — money, tax, invoicing, appearance, data, connections.
The sections
- Money — cash on hand (the forecast simulates forward from it), your safety buffer, usual day rate, and the currencies you work in.
- Tax — where you pay tax (the recipe), VAT registration, the fiscal year, and when tax leaves the balance (Tax explains the timing choice).
- Invoicing — your sender block, logo (or no logo) and signature, bank details per currency, payment terms, and the numbering scheme (Invoicing covers sequences).
- Appearance — themes, colours and display switches; below.
- Data — where the document lives, backups, the import tool, password protection (Your data).
- Connections — Google Calendar (events into “This week”, bookings mirrored out) and the Notion token for the legacy pull. Tokens stay on the machine, never in the shared document.
- Experimental — features still earning their place: money-first mode, password protection, connecting a Google account, and a replay of the welcome tour.
- About — version, licence, and the release notes.
Appearance
Two themes — Cream and Onyx — with the topbar toggle one click between them. Pipeline colours decide how the eight pipeline slots (and the day-off amber) paint every surface — seven of them the ladder’s own rungs, the eighth the Invoiced colour, which since the money moved onto its own axis dresses the Invoicing pill rather than a stage. The four built-in schemes each walk a different logic — these strips are the schemes themselves, drawn from the same definitions the app applies:
Create custom palette opens an editor that recolours the live app as you type, per theme. Palettes travel as PNG cards — a picture with a QR code that any toqe imports, and a link that opens the palette in the web app for someone without it. Display switches cover the rest: full window width, whether timeline bars and History rows wear their status, panel opacity.
Layout preferences — view picks, sorts, filters, column widths — live in the document, so they follow you between machines; a per-machine switch opts one screen out when its size genuinely differs.
Money first
Settings → Experimental holds two switches for running toqe as a finances-only app. They’re independent — either works on its own — and both travel with the document.
- Hide the Work pages takes Projects, Calendar, Clients, Invoicing and History out of the sidebar, and search, reminders and ⌘K stop pointing there too — a page the nav won’t show isn’t a page a click can land on. The calendar rail stays, because painting days off is still yours; what goes quiet is anything that creates work, so a sweep offers days off and half days rather than holds.
- Year view counts spending gives each month what it cost beside what it earned, and adds a Kept card to the Year view — earned minus spent, across the same fiscal window as the twelve months below it.
Keyboard
| Keys | What happens |
|---|---|
| ⌘K / Ctrl+K | Search everything — projects, clients, invoices, expenses — and land on the row. It reads status words as well as names: finished and done find work that’s wrapped, complete the jobs that are also paid, and invoiced or paid find by where the money is. |
| ⌘S / Ctrl+S | Save now, with the indicator confirming the write landed. |
| Esc | Closes the top-most thing — a popover before a card, a card before the page. |
| Shift-click (calendars) | Fill the working days between two ends. |
The theme toggle, the calendar rail and the bell all live in the top bar, on every page. The desktop app also answers links: a toqe://project/… opens straight onto that booking’s card and a toqe://studio/… onto the client’s record, bringing an already-running window forward rather than launching a second copy.