Your account and settings

Your profile is your public face on the site. Edit profile, under your name, changes:

Share, beside it, copies your profile's link, posts it to X, LinkedIn or YouTube Community, or shows a QR code you can download for a card, a slide or a book.

Settings is grouped the way the island on its left lists them: Account, Profile, Appearance, Writing, Reading and Security.

Account

The address you signed in with, your profile's link to copy, and a place to change your password. At its foot, set apart: changing the email address you sign in with, which asks for your password and takes effect only once you confirm the link sent to the new address, and deleting your account.

Profile

The same profile can be edited here, in five cards: Photo, Name and handle, Bio and links, Visibility, and Profile graph. The profile page’s own Edit profile still works as before.

Links live inside the bio, as a pasted address or [label](https://…), with a live preview. Save profile saves name, handle, bio and visibility together; the photo and graph colours save separately.

The graph’s discipline colours are saved to your account. They apply to the profile graph and to Branchspace’s graphs and link colours too. Back to automatic lets the site choose again; the colour it picks stays put when another discipline appears. The graph’s view — Space, Tags and borrowed notes — is kept in this browser only.

Appearance

Theme

Four colour themes, applied across the whole site: Lqiia Scarce (dark), Soulish White (light), Haze Warmth and Harbor Dusk.

Size

Scales everything at once — text, icons, logos and pictures. Reset goes back to the default.

First day of the week

Sunday or Monday, for your writing calendar.

Branchspace style changes the workspace’s panels, menus and lettering. Choose Branch Default, Terminal Afterglow, Phosphor ’84 or Desktop ’95; the card shows the chosen style in the current theme, with Glow strength for the two glowing styles. The note keeps its own look. This choice is kept in this browser only; Styles in the Branchspace guide shows all four, their theme combinations and the glow controls.

Writing: the AI agent

Branchspace has an agent: an assistant in the Agent tab of its right pane that reads your notes and proposes changes — to the note you have open (links to related notes, tighter wording, tags, a new callout) or to another note it can reach; a new note, filled in, in the space you name; a new template, with its dates and times set to fill in by themselves; renaming a note, or moving it to another space or folder. With Ask before changes (the default), nothing changes until you accept the card, and an accepted change to the open note undoes with Ctrl Z like anything you type. Allow additions and Allow all edits let it make allowed changes at once, each with Undo, as below. It cannot delete notes, make spaces or folders, or publish.

It runs on your own OpenRouter account, which reaches Claude, GPT, Gemini and others. You connect it once, here or from the Agent tab, and OpenRouter bills you for what you use. Branch Press charges nothing for it and never sees your OpenRouter password or card.

Three menus sit in the prompt box, under your question: what the agent may do without asking, how hard it works, and the model. Each choice in a menu says what it does. Auto, in the second, chooses a depth and model for each question: Think hard with the strong model for work across notes or a long question or note, Quick with a fast model for a small change, and Think otherwise. The answer says what it chose and why. You can also choose Quick (up to 15 steps), Think (the default, up to 30) or Think hard (up to 40). A step is one round of reading or proposing; deeper work costs more, and thinking is paid like writing.

AGENT.md holds your standing instructions: how to write, what to leave alone, how to link. Settings ▸ Writing ▸ AI agent ▸ Open AGENT.md opens or makes the one in Unfiled, for every space. Right-click a space ▸ Agent instructions for this space opens or makes that space’s own. Its instructions add to the Unfiled ones and win where they differ; your question wins over both. They never widen the agent’s powers. The tab says which it is following. These notes remain in the Explorer but stay out of graphs and the agent’s note lists.

The agent can map a space, read a note’s outgoing links and backlinks, and find mentions of a note that have not yet become links. A Link proposal turns a mention into [[Exact Title]], pointing to the note in the same space. With Ask before changes it waits for acceptance; with Allow additions or Allow all edits it can happen at once.

The first menu, with the shield, sets what it may do without asking. Ask before changes waits for every change. Allow additions makes new notes, templates, added paragraphs, added tags and new links at once; rewording, removing, renaming and moving still ask. Allow all edits makes every allowed change at once. Neither permits deleting notes, publishing or leaving its reading reach.

Each automatic change has a Done automatically card with Undo. An answer with several has Undo everything. Undo stops if you have changed that note since, so it cannot overwrite newer work. It lives in the open page only: reloading or reopening a saved conversation does not restore it.

You watch it work. Its thinking comes folded, with its newest line showing beneath; its answer appears as it is written; proposals arrive as it makes them, and you can accept one while it goes on. Stop ends the question and keeps what it had written.

Every conversation is saved to your account as you go, with the note it is about, so closing the page loses nothing. History, in the pinned controls at the foot of the tab, lists them all, newest first, on every device. Open one to carry on where you left it; the agent remembers the whole exchange. A conversation stays in the tab as you move from note to note, and each question tells the agent which note is open then. When you start a new one, the open note's earlier conversations are offered in the empty tab. New conversation starts afresh; the old one stays in History. Every question sends the whole conversation again, so a long one costs more each time.

The AI agent card also keeps these choices on each device:

Model

Which model the agent uses. The list shows each one's price per million tokens, in and out. The Agent tab has the same list.

Show a proposed change

In the panel and in the note (the default), in the panel only, or in the note only.

What the agent may read

The open note's space, asking before it reads or changes anything in your other spaces (the default); or only that space, never asking. Templates belong to no space, so it may always propose one.

How hard the agent works

Auto, Quick, Think (the default) or Think hard, as above. With Auto, choose the strong model and a fast model for small changes. A model that cannot think still gets the extra steps and the longer replies, and the Agent tab says so.

What the agent may do by itself

Ask before changes (the default), Allow additions or Allow all edits. The Agent tab has the same choice in its prompt box, with Done cards and Undo.

Below the standing instructions, the card counts your saved conversations, with Delete all conversations, which asks once and cannot be undone.

What leaves Branch Press. What you ask, and the notes the agent reads to answer, go to OpenRouter and to the company running the model you chose (its maker, or a host OpenRouter routes to), and only to hosts that neither keep nor may train on what they are sent. Your conversations, with the note text they quote, are kept in your account, seen by no one else, until you delete them, and they go with it if you delete your account. Disconnecting forgets the connection here; the key stays on your OpenRouter account until you delete it at openrouter.ai/keys.

Reading

Following

Whether you hear about every public note or only essays from writers you follow, and whether your own journals reach your followers.

People you have hidden

Everyone whose comments you hid or whom you blocked, in one list, to undo.

Saved categories

Your shelves for saved essays: add, rename or delete one. Deleting a shelf removes only that shelf; the essays stay saved anywhere else you put them.

Security

Sign out

On this device.

Active sessions

Where you are signed in, from what the browser reports — not your exact location.

Other sessions

Terminate all other sessions signs you out everywhere except here. Use it if you signed in somewhere you no longer trust.

Two-factor

Adds a code from an authenticator app (Google Authenticator, Authy, 1Password) as a second step at sign-in. Keep the recovery codes it gives you somewhere safe.

A recovery code is not a sign-in code. Each works once, if you lose the app: using one removes two-factor from your account so that you can sign in and set it up again. Regenerate recovery codes makes a fresh set, and the old ones stop working.

Every account starts free, with the whole of Branchspace. Some things carry an allowance on the free plan, such as one board and three album photographs. A paid plan lifts those allowances and shows a small badge beside your name. See /pricing for what each plan includes.

If something breaks, says something untrue, or could simply be better, say so. There are three ways in: Report, under Private in the menu on the left of your profile; Report a problem or suggest an idea in Branchspace's Ctrl P commands; and the line at the foot of every guide.

Choose Something's wrong or An idea, write it in your own words, and send. The page you came from, your browser, your screen size and your theme go with it, so a problem can be found again. The form lists them before you send. Your email goes with it only if you tick You may reply to me by email. Only the founder reads reports.

Your writing is yours: any note can be taken out as Markdown or a Word file, or printed, from its menu in Branchspace. Do that first.

Delete account, at the foot of Settings ▸ Account, permanently deletes your account and everything in it: private notes, spaces, reading list, highlights, reading history, public profile and photo. You type DELETE to confirm, and it cannot be undone.

• Using Branchspace — where the Agent tab lives.
• Publishing, and being read — what your public profile shows.
• Boards and the album — the two allowances, and what they are.