Settings
Every page in Veda's window and every switch in Settings, in order. Changes save as you make them — there's no Save button.
On this page
Click the Veda icon in the menu bar (Mac) or system tray (Windows), then Open Veda. The window has two sidebars:
- The app — Home (your week, your brief and the Ask Veda box), Memory, Meetings, Connections and Settings, with your Ask chats underneath under Recents (Today, Yesterday, Earlier).
- Settings — grouped as App (General), Writing (Edit mode, Writing style) and Account (Plan & usage, Privacy, Activity, Support). Back to app returns to where you were, and your Veda version is at the bottom.
Every change saves as you make it.
The app pages
| Page | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Home | This week's numbers, the Brief, and the box at the bottom for asking Veda. Your chats are listed in the sidebar under Recents. See Weekly recap & Home. |
| Memory | What Veda remembers, the people you talk to, and memory's own switches. See Memory. |
| Meetings | Your week from your calendar, notes, and the meeting card settings. See Meetings and Meeting notes. |
| Connections | Google Calendar, Apple Calendar (Mac), and the work apps coming next. See Connections. |
General
How Veda starts, writes and listens.
Veda
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Veda is on | Off pauses Veda — the key does nothing until you switch it back on. |
| Trigger key | Which key Veda listens for. Holding it for a shortcut or a capital letter never triggers Veda. See The Veda key. |
| Launch at login | Start Veda when you log in. |
Writing
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Formatting | Plain text, Keep mine (your bold, italics and links survive a rewrite in Slack, Gmail, Notion and other rich editors) or Keep and add (also a little formatting where the app shows it: code for commands, bold for the one thing that matters, lists for steps). |
Voice
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Double-tap to dictate | Voice dictation. Double-tap, speak, tap once to finish. |
| Mute other audio while listening | Music and video go quiet while you dictate, and come back when you stop. |
| Speech model | The on-device model that turns your voice into text. Shows Ready, the download progress, or a button to install it. |
While Veda works
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Sound effects | A tick when Veda hears the key, a chime when the text lands. Play previews them. |
| Writing indicator | A thin line along the text box while Veda writes or listens. |
| Weekly recap | A Monday-morning notification with the time Veda saved you last week. |
Veda always picks the tone from the app and the conversation. Learning is switched on and off on Writing style, and when the brief is made is set on its card on Home.
Edit mode
Hold the key to tell Veda what to change.
- A picture of the bar and how to open it, and the three steps: hold, pick or type, keep it or don't.
- Your presets — up to six, each with a name (20 characters at most) and the instruction Veda follows. Add your own, delete one, or pick from Ideas while the list is empty. See Your own presets.
- Good to know — selected text, someone else's text, refining, and leaving your text alone.
Writing style
Tell Veda about you once; it learns the rest from the drafts you edit. See Writing style & learning.
- About you — your role, who you write to, tone, reply length, emoji and languages. Edit opens it.
- Your rules — rules in your own words. Veda never edits them, and they win over everything else.
- Learning — how many of your edits Veda has saved, and Learn now.
- What Veda has learned — Veda's notes on how you write, with Edit, Reset what Veda learned and Forget saved edits.
Details
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Your name | Add other names or @handles after commas, so Veda can tell your messages from theirs. |
| Reply in their language | Drafted replies use the language the other person wrote in. See Reply in their language. |
| My language | What Translate in Edit mode translates into. |
| Update after | How many new edits before Veda refreshes what it knows. |
Plan & usage
Your plan and billing, then how much you've used: AI requests this month, what's left, a chart of requests per day for the last 30 days, and where you use Veda this month (counted on your computer only). See Free trial and Veda Pro.
- Your plan — trial days and AI requests left, or your plan's details.
- Manage subscription — opens the Paddle customer portal. See Manage your subscription.
- Remove from this Mac / PC (paid plans) — frees the key's slot and signs this computer out.
- Subscribe monthly / Yearly — when you don't have an active paid plan.
- Already bought one? — paste a licence key and click Activate. See Licence keys.
Privacy
What leaves your computer, and what never does. See Privacy.
- Permissions — everything Veda may use and whether it's allowed, with a button for each. On a Mac: Accessibility, Microphone, Notifications, Call audio, Calendar and Screen recording. On Windows: Microphone, Notifications and Call audio (which needs no permission there).
- Which apps Veda remembers — switch an app off and Veda never remembers conversations there. Pause and Forget menus sit beside the heading.
- Which websites — adult sites are never remembered; Banking & finance is off unless you switch it on; add your own under Your sites.
- Where your words go — a diagram of the path your text takes on your plan.
- What's kept, and where — on your computer (with Show folder) and on Veda's server.
- Usage data — Share anonymous usage data, on by default. See Usage data.
- Forget everything learned — deletes saved writing samples and resets the learned profile. About you and your rules stay.
Activity
Everything Veda has done, newest first. Filter by All, Replies or Problems, search, reveal the log file, or clear it. Show what Veda sends (on this computer only) keeps a copy of the last request so you can see exactly what went to the AI.
Support
- Get help — Email us, the Help centre (these docs), and Report a bad result.
- Updates — your version with Check for updates, Install updates automatically (Mac, on unless you turn it off), and What's new.
- Diagnostics — settings and states only, never your text, names or keys. Copy it into an email to us.
- Logs — the Activity page and the log file.
The menu-bar and tray panel
Click the Veda icon in the menu bar or tray for a quick panel:
- An update banner when there's a new version.
- Taking notes with Stop, while meeting notes are running.
- The rest of today's meetings (tomorrow's once today's are done) — click one to open it, or the camera to join. See Meetings.
- Last action, with Report last result under it. See Reporting a bad result.
- Memory controls: Exclude … from memory for the app you were just in, and Pause memory when memory is always on.
- Open Veda, Check for updates, Launch at login and Quit Veda. On Windows it also has Keep Veda visible on the taskbar.
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