Your account

Settings, sign-in options, password resets, themes, storage, and deleting your account.

Everything about your account lives on one quiet settings page: the gear icon in the top right of the workspace. Four sections — Account, Editor, Appearance, Data — and every change saves the moment you make it. There's no Save button to forget.

Signing in

You can sign in with your email and password or with your Google account — whichever you signed up with.

Forgot your password? Use the "Forgot password" link on the login page; you'll get an email with a reset link.

The settings page, section by section

Account — your email, your plan (with an upgrade link on free, or Manage billing on Plus — see Plans and billing), and Export everything (.zip).

Editor — font size, focused writing, keybindings, and the shortcuts reference. Covered in The editor.

Appearance — theme: system, light, or dark. Your choice follows your account to every device you sign in on.

Data — a meter showing storage used against your plan's cap, and export again. Export sits in two places on purpose: it should never be hard to find.

Where your notes live

Your notes and their version history are stored on Hetzner servers in the European Union, as plain-text files. The privacy policy says what we collect and why, in plain language — it's short and worth the two minutes.

Deleting your account

At the very bottom of settings, deliberately last. Deleting removes your account, your notes, and their entire version history — this is the one action in knowdust that restore cannot undo, which is why it asks you to type your username to confirm.

Before you delete: export everything first. The button is right there on the same page, it takes seconds, and afterwards your writing exists somewhere that's entirely yours.

If something in knowdust drove you to that button, we'd honestly like to know: [email protected].

Something on this page wrong or unclear? Tell us — it'll be fixed.