Settings: What Each Page Does

The settings area is reached from the header of your account and has its own list of pages on the left. Nothing here is required reading: an account works with everything left as it is. The pages matter when you want the bookmark list to show more, when the appearance annoys you, when you want a copy of your data, or when you want to leave.

Account Type

Shows whether the account is free or Premium, and for a Premium account the date it runs until. From here you buy Premium time, either once for a fixed period or as a subscription that renews itself, and from here you reach the page where a running subscription is cancelled, invoices are found and the payment method is changed. The prices stand on the pricing page.

User Data

Your name, your username and the email address the account is tied to. That address is the one used for password resets and for the warnings before an unused account is removed, so it is worth keeping correct. You can also upload a picture, choose the date format you prefer, and set your time zone, which is what makes dates in the lists show your local time rather than the server's.

Password

Changing the password, and nothing else.

General

Four switches that do not belong to any one area:

• Ignore team invitations - nobody can invite you into a team any more.
• Show web search - puts a second search field into the account that queries Google, Yahoo, Bing or DuckDuckGo, whichever you pick.
• Sort folders by name - keeps the folder tree in alphabetical order instead of the order you dragged it into.
• Allow deleting folders that are not empty - normally a folder has to be emptied first, which is a guard against losing a branch by accident. This switch removes the guard, and what goes that way does not come back.

Bookmarks

This page decides what a row in the bookmark list shows: the description, the address, the short address, the date it was added, the date it was last used, and the three counters for how often it was opened privately, on your public page and through its short address. Every column you switch on costs width, so the useful setting is the one that shows what you actually look at.

Here you also switch on favorites, decide whether bookmarks open in the current window or a new one, and can tell Bookmax to ignore favicons if you would rather have a plain list. A second block does the same for your public page, including which of the three views visitors get. Under folder settings, two more switches: a sort order stored separately for each folder, and showing the bookmarks of the subfolders when a folder itself is empty.

Public Page

Your account can have a public face: a page under a name you choose, showing only what you put into the public section. This page switches it on, sets the public name, shows the resulting address, and decides which areas appear there - bookmarks, lists, contacts, notes, news - plus a text of your own for the top of the page. With the page switched off, nothing of your account is reachable from outside.

Template

The appearance. Either one of the ready made templates, or your own: background color, text color, a background image by address, corner radius and font size. It affects your account, and it affects your public page, which is why a profile looks like its owner set it up rather than like everybody else's.

Backup and Restore

One file with everything in it: bookmarks, folders, tags, lists, contacts, notes, documents and feeds. Download it, keep it, and read it back later, into this account or another one. Before anything is written the import shows what the file contains and what of it will actually fit, so a free account is told in advance where its limits will cut the import short. This works in every account, free or Premium, and it is the honest answer to the question of what happens to your data if you stop using the service.

Reset Account

Empties selected areas without touching the account itself: bookmarks and folders, lists, contacts, notes, documents, news, each with its own checkbox. Useful after trying things out, and final - what is deleted here is gone.

Delete Account

Removes the account entirely. You confirm that you have read what it means, and the account is locked immediately. For one week it stays on the disk, so a mistake can still be undone by writing to us; after that week everything is removed for good and no copy is kept for you. Premium payments are not refunded. If you want your data first, fetch it from Backup and Restore before you start.

An account that is never used is removed as well, but not quietly: three emails give a date, and a single login before that date stops the procedure. The rules stand in section 9 of the terms of use.

Related: bookmarks, folders and tags, teams, and the help overview.