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Personalization Settings

Published February 27, 2026 · Last updated March 7, 2026 · 3 min read

Personalization lets you tailor how Obvious looks, communicates, and behaves — all in one place.

Open Personalization

  1. Click your avatar in the bottom-left corner of the sidebar.

  2. Click Personalization.

The Personalization page opens with all your settings in a single scrollable view. Changes save automatically.

Theme

Choose how Obvious appears on screen.

  1. Find the Theme dropdown.

  2. Select Light, Dark, or System.

System matches whatever your operating system is set to, so Obvious switches automatically when you toggle your device's appearance.

High Contrast

Turn on Use High Contrast to increase text and border contrast for better readability. This works with any theme.

Company and Role

These two fields give the agent context about who you are. When you fill in your company name and role, the agent factors that into every response — across all projects and conversations.

  1. Type your company name in the Company field.

  2. Type your role in the Role field.

Both fields are optional, but the more context the agent has, the more relevant its answers.

Custom Instructions

Custom instructions are directions that apply to every conversation in every project. Use them to set preferences the agent should always follow — your preferred level of detail, tone, formatting habits, or anything else you'd tell a new coworker on day one.

  1. Type your instructions in the Custom Instructions text area.

  2. Click outside the field to save.

Tip: Keep these broad. Project-specific instructions belong in the project's own settings — not here.

Memory

Memory lets the agent remember context across conversations, both within a project and globally. When enabled, the agent builds on what it learns over time instead of starting fresh each chat.

Toggle Memory on or off. The change saves immediately.

Advanced Cost Management

Turn on Advanced Cost Management Mode to see detailed credit usage — thread and project credits, spend breakdowns, and task cost estimates. Useful if you're keeping a close eye on consumption.

Send Shortcut

By default, pressing Enter sends your message. If you prefer using Enter for line breaks instead:

  1. Toggle Send With Cmd/Ctrl+Enter on.

  2. Now Enter inserts a new line, and Cmd+Enter (Mac) or Ctrl+Enter (Windows) sends.

Chat Language

Set the language the agent uses in its responses.

  1. Open the Chat Language dropdown.

  2. Pick a language from the list, or type a language name to search. If yours isn't listed, type it in and select the custom option that appears.

The default is Auto-detect, which matches the language you write in.

Message Color

Pick a color for your chat messages to make them yours.

  1. Find the Message Color row.

  2. Click any preset color circle. Hover over a circle to preview how it looks on a message bubble.

  3. For a specific color, click the custom color option at the end of the row and enter a hex code or use the picker.

Default Mode

Choose which agent mode new chats start with.

  1. Open the Default Mode dropdown.

  2. Select a mode. Auto is the default and works well for most tasks.

The mode you pick here applies to new chats only — it doesn't change the mode in existing conversations.

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