Making it look right
Settings → General. There isn’t much here, on purpose — Pellet aims for sensible defaults over a wall of switches — but the things people actually change are all present.
Light and dark
Section titled “Light and dark”Light, Dark, or System to follow your computer. System is the default.
Two independent choices, which is worth understanding because it’s more flexible than most apps:
- Color scheme — the grays the whole app is built from. Eight of them.
- Accent — the highlight color used for selection, links and buttons.
They’re separate. Any accent works on any scheme, so you can have a warm neutral scheme with a cool accent, or set the accent to auto and let the scheme pick its own.
Interface font and editor font are set separately. A tidy sans for the app chrome and something more comfortable for long reading is a common pairing, and one most apps won’t let you have.
Density
Section titled “Density”How big the controls are.
- Auto (default) — comfortable on touch, compact with a mouse
- Comfortable — every button at least 44×44pt, the size Apple recommends for fingers
- Compact — tighter, more on screen
Auto reads the pointer, so an iPad gets the roomier layout and a desktop the tighter one without you choosing.
Dates and times
Section titled “Dates and times”- Week starts on — Sunday or Monday
- Time format — 12-hour or 24-hour
These affect the calendar and every date shown in task views.
Focus mode
Section titled “Focus mode”⇧⌘F hides every piece of chrome and leaves the document. It’s a mode you turn on for a stretch of writing, not a preference — it doesn’t persist across restarts, by design.