Settings¶

SimpleDiagrams ▸ Settings… — Cmd+,.

It's a short window. That's on purpose.

The Settings window

Library and Panels¶

Setting	Default	What it does
Show shape tooltips	Off	Hover a shape in the Library panel to see its name.
Show shapes in use	On	Adds an In Use section listing shapes already on the current page.
Show shape counts	On	The "N shapes" number beside each library heading.
Art panel appearance	Dark	Dark or Light panels, independent of your Mac's setting.

Reset Workspace… puts every panel back where it started — position, size, order, and the tool palette placement. It asks first, and it doesn't touch your diagrams or your Library display choices.

Use it when you've dragged something somewhere strange and can't undo your way out.

Troubleshooting¶

Setting	Default	What it does
Verbose logging until restart	Off	Records more detail while you reproduce a problem. Resets when you quit.

Routine failures are recorded locally. Nothing is uploaded automatically — the app has no network access at all.

Export Diagnostics… writes a SimpleDiagrams-Diagnostics.json file you can send me if something's gone wrong. Before it saves, it tells you exactly what's in there: app and macOS versions and event codes. No diagram content, no file names, no personal information.

That's the lot¶

There isn't a third pane. Most things that would be preferences in another app are per-document settings instead, which means they travel with the file:

Grid spacing and snapping — View ▸ Grid Settings…
Page size and DPI — Page ▸ Output Size…
Background — Page ▸ Background…
Default fill, stroke and text colours — click a colour chip with nothing selected
Panel positions — drag them, or use the View menu