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LOCAL SETTINGS

Your page.
Your browser.

Every setting on this page stays in local browser storage. Nothing synchronizes, no analytics run, and uploaded vocabulary is excluded from export.

Search & actions

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Preview
Primary action
Text size Density: comfortable
APPEARANCE

Theme

Applies immediately and persists.

LANGUAGE

Language

English presentation active.

ACCESSIBILITY

Attention preferences

Reduce demands on sustained attention. Applies immediately and persists.

Attention preferences
SCHEDULING

Scheduling

Enables locally-timed reminders for this browser only. No background network activity is created.

LOCAL PRIVACY

Local logo

Maximum 128 KiB, PNG/JPEG/SVG only. No data leaves this browser.

No file loaded; default mark is active.

IDENTITY

Display name

Renames what this site calls itself on screen: the brand line at the top and bottom of every page, and this browser tab title. Nothing else moves. Downloads, exported files, this page own local storage and the link preview other people see all keep the shipped name Material Asterisk, so anything you save or share still names the product.

Using the shipped name, Material Asterisk.

APPEARANCE

Dialog emojis

Adds a decorative emoji beside each dialog and message box heading. The wording is identical either way, and no button, control label or screen-reader name ever carries one.

Dialogs and message boxes carry no emoji.

UPDATES

Published version

Checks whether the published site has moved on from the page you are reading, and says so without interrupting you. The comparison is on the build commit this page was made from, not on the version label beside it. Nothing is installed and nothing downloads in the background: reloading is what takes the new page. The check asks this site for one small version file and sends nothing anywhere.

A page installs nothing, so four parts of the desktop updater have no equivalent here and are deliberately absent rather than faked: there is no staged download, no signature to verify, no restart, and nothing to roll back. Reloading is the whole installation step.

Reading this page’s build identity…

Not checked yet.

ACCESSIBILITY

Spoken narration

Reads events aloud through this browser’s own speech voices. It is off until you switch it on, and everything it says is already on screen: it adds no facts of its own. Choose the narrated language, a voice for each language, and the rate and pitch.

A browser cannot tell whether a screen reader is running, so this narrator cannot step aside for one. That is why it ships off. Low stimulation silences it live, errors included.

Reading the voices this computer reports…

Reading the voices this computer reports…

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LAYOUT

Density

Changes spacing without hiding content.

APPEARANCE

Accent colour

A local interface accent. Paste any format below to translate it and check contrast.

TYPOGRAPHY

Text size

Scales site typography from 90–130%.

100%
MOTION

Low stimulation

Stops non-essential site animation. The operating-system preference also applies.

LOCAL PRIVACY

Personal vocabulary JSON

Maximum 64 KiB, schema version 1, up to 256 bounded string replacements. No data leaves this browser.

No file loaded; original wording is active.

RESTRICTIONS

School mode

While this is on, the page presents itself in plain English only. The Cantonese and bilingual choices, both funny levels and the personal-vocabulary upload are removed from this page rather than greyed out, and your existing choices stay stored and return when it is turned off. Turning it off needs a value you choose now.

This is a speed bump you set for yourself, not a security boundary. It protects nothing from anyone else who has this computer, and clearing this site's storage in your browser turns it off without the value.

It is off. Every setting on this page is available.

Forgotten the value?

RECOVERY

Support Tickets

A local ticket desk for the one thing this page can lock you out of. Nothing is sent anywhere: a ticket is written to this browser, given a number, and answered by this page. The resolution is always the same, and it is the only thing that works — clear this site’s storage yourself.

Nothing here is sent anywhere. No ticket exists outside this browser, no network request is made, no data is collected, and nobody is reading it. This desk is part of the page you are already on, and no one is coming.

SECURITY

Built-in authenticator

Keeps one-time-code accounts for other services in this browser and shows their codes here. The secrets stay in this browser and nothing is sent anywhere. Every code is computed on this page from the secret you registered. Clearing this site’s storage deletes them, and nothing here can give a secret back.

Codes come from this computer’s own clock.

Reading what this browser can scan…

No accounts are kept in this browser yet.

RESTRICTIONS

Element locks

Locks one control at a time behind a PIN, a password, a one-time code, or a combination of them. It is a speed bump you set for yourself, not a security boundary: it encrypts nothing and stops nobody else who has this computer. Every lock carries its own value, so opening one opens nothing else, and clearing this site’s storage removes them all — nothing here can give a value back.

Right-click any control on any page of this site and choose “Lock this element…”, or press Alt+Shift+K while it has focus. A locked control refuses what it would have done and opens its own unlock prompt instead; reloading this page locks everything again, because nothing about an unlock is written down.

Nothing on this site is locked.

Forgotten a value?

Command palette

Regular expression builder

Flags

Local notifications

Reset settings

This clears every local setting on this page — theme, language, funny levels, attention preferences, scheduling, accent colour, text size, the display name you chose, the dialog emoji switch, the spoken-narration switch and its chosen voices, uploaded logo, uploaded personal vocabulary, and any published-version banner you set aside with Later — for this browser only. It cannot be undone. It deliberately does not clear the restricted-presentation switch, the name you gave it, or the value that turns it off: a reset button that unlocked it would be a way around the lock rather than a reset. It also leaves your authenticator accounts alone, for a related reason: those are credentials rather than settings, they are kept in their own storage key, and a reset that silently deleted them would be losing your data rather than resetting a preference. Remove them from the authenticator card, or clear this site’s storage in your browser, if that is what you want. It leaves the support tickets in this browser alone for the same reason as the switch itself: they are the recorded route back out of that lock.

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Local history

Every local setting change on this page is recorded here. Restoring an earlier revision creates a new entry — it never rewrites what came before, so a restore can itself be undone.

Support Tickets

Nothing here is sent anywhere. No ticket exists outside this browser, no network request is made, no data is collected, and nobody is reading it. This desk is part of the page you are already on, and no one is coming.

Export everything

Writes one file for every record set this page holds, all in the single format you choose. Nothing leaves this browser. While it runs it names the file it is writing and how many are done, so a run stopped part-way can tell you exactly which files you already have.

Authenticator accounts are not written here. They hold credentials, and this run has one format for every record set, so redacting them per row is the authenticator card’s own job: it exports the accounts with every secret left out, and offers a separate, separately confirmed export for the secrets themselves. Element locks are left out for the same reason and redacted the same way on their own card: every row names the element, the page and the method, and carries the word omitted where a PIN, a password, a salt, a digest or a one-time-code secret would be.

Not started. Nothing has been written.

Add an account

Bring a secret that another service issued you. Nothing is generated here and nothing is sent anywhere: the secret is kept in this browser, and the codes are computed from it on this page.

Read it in

Or type it

This page refuses to save an account until it has actually computed a code from the secret, which catches a mistyped or truncated one at the moment you enter it rather than at your next sign-in. If you already hold this account in another authenticator, typing its current code above additionally checks that the secret is the same one; leaving it empty saves the account with that check not done, and says so.

Export authenticator secrets

This writes a file holding every authenticator secret this browser keeps, in the clear, along with the otpauth:// link each one came from. Anyone who opens that file can generate exactly the codes you can. The ordinary account export beside this one leaves every secret out; this is the deliberate exception, and it exists so you can move your accounts somewhere else rather than lose them.

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