# Settings and preferences

## Make Sprintree fit your day

Your account **Settings** control how Sprintree looks and how it opens work for you. Project settings control one project's shared setup.

If you prefer to plan in a list, choose List as your default project view. If your team works across time zones, choose date and time settings you can read comfortably.

## Change your preferences

1. Open account **Settings** from the sidebar.
2. Under **Preferences**, select **General**.
3. Choose your **Default project view**: **Board**, **List**, **Hierarchy** or **Topology**. Your choice saves when selected.

![General preferences with Default project view highlighted](https://sprintree.com/docs-media/preferences-view-light-337d44d1.webp)

This preference applies when you open projects from the sidebar, project list, search or Home. A link directly to `/p/KEY` still opens the Board.

4. Select **Appearance** and choose **Light**, **Dark** or **System**. System follows your device's appearance.
5. Select **Date & time** to choose time format, date format and which day starts your week.

![Appearance settings with Light, Dark and System choices](https://sprintree.com/docs-media/preferences-appearance-light-c75b25f4.webp)

## Other useful settings

- **Profile** changes how you appear to teammates.
- **E-mail** controls optional email notifications and the digest time zone.
- **Sign-in & security** contains connected sign-in accounts and **Sign out everywhere**.
- **API & MCP** manages personal access tokens and connected apps.
- **Show Get started again** in General restores unfinished or skipped onboarding steps on Home.

## How do I export my data?

You can download a copy of your data as one file, in JSON or in Markdown. Markdown is plain text, so you can open it in any text editor. The file holds your profile and preferences, your linked sign-ins, the projects you belong to, the cards and pages you created and the comments you wrote. For files you uploaded it lists the names and details, not the files themselves. Cards, pages and comments written by other people are not included. Only projects you can still open are included, and deleted cards, pages and comments are left out.

1. Open **Settings** from the sidebar.
2. Select **Danger zone**.
3. Under **Export your data**, press **Export as JSON** or **Export as Markdown**.
4. Your browser downloads the file.

You can export up to 5 times an hour. Export works from the signed-in web app only, not with an access token.

## Tips and common mistakes

- Check whether you opened account Settings or a project's Settings before changing something.
- Signing out everywhere ends browser sessions. Tokens and connected apps keep working unless you choose to revoke them too.
- Most preferences save as you select them. Profile fields have their own save action.

## Related pages

- [Notifications](https://sprintree.com/docs/notifications) for email and Inbox.
- [Access tokens](https://sprintree.com/docs/access-tokens) for scripts and integrations.
- [Board](https://sprintree.com/docs/board) and [List and filters](https://sprintree.com/docs/list-and-filters) for project views.