Your partner and settings

Rename your partner, choose how it talks, when it may come to you, what it remembers, and the app's own settings.

There are two places to change things. Partner is about the one you talk to: its name, how it talks, when it comes to you and what it remembers. Settings is about the app itself. What your devices can do lives in Devices.

Partner

Open it with ⌘4, from View › Partner, or by clicking your partner’s face and name at the top of the conversation. On a phone, tap your partner at the top of the conversation.

• Its name. Click Rename, type a new name, and press Return. The new name shows at once in every window and on your phone.
• How it talks. Choose Follow me to have it answer in whatever language you write in. Choose 中文 or English to have it always answer in that language.
• When it comes to you.
  • Notifications turns the nudges on this Mac and your connected phones on or off. With them off, anything that needs you waits in the conversation and in On hand.
  • Quiet hours holds notifications between two times, 23:00 to 08:00 at first. When the quiet hours end, you hear about everything that came up during them.
  • If you don’t answer sets how long a decision waits before your partner goes with its suggested default: 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour or 2 hours. This applies only to things that can be undone. Anything that can’t be undone always waits for you.
• What it remembers. With Nowledge Mem connected, your partner remembers what you’ve told it across conversations. Noted lately lists what it wrote down. Forget removes a line: Nowledge Mem forgets it when it can, and otherwise the line is only hidden here (the app tells you which). To stop it from recalling or noting anything, turn off Remember things.
• On its own, or asks you first. This list shows what your partner does without asking (changing code in its own copy, reading your projects, browsing in its own browser) and what it always asks you about first (anything that reaches other people, anything that can’t be taken back, signing in, paying). You can’t change this list yet.

Settings

Open it with ⌘, or Ducter › Settings….

• Look: Pebble, the warm paper and clay look. More looks will appear here once they work.
• Language: the language of the app’s own words. Follow the system uses your Mac’s language. This is separate from how your partner talks.
• When you close the window: shows whether Ducter keeps working in the background and starts again when you log in. Stop Ducter stops everything until you wake it.
• Updates: checks for a new version, restarts into one that’s ready, or installs it when you quit.
• Data and logs: opens Ducter’s data folder or its log. Run checks runs the same check-up as the first run, with a plain line for each tool.
• About: the version, the docs, the licenses, and Report a problem….
• Remove Ducter is the quiet button at the very bottom. It shows exactly what goes and what stays before anything is removed. See Install.

The menu bar

• Ducter: About, the update line, Settings…, Stop Ducter, Quit.
• View: Conversation ⌘1, On hand ⌘2, Devices ⌘3, Partner ⌘4.
• Help: Ducter docs, Report a problem….

With the window closed, your partner also sits in the macOS menu bar. Click it to see what needs you and answer each question with Go or Hold, or choose Open Ducter.

Devices: AI accounts and connecting a phone

In Devices, the AI accounts under this Mac (Claude Code, Codex) open when you click them. From there you can install the tool, sign in with its own sign-in in your browser, or sign out. Ducter never sees your password. To add your phone or another computer, click Connect a phone or computer. The app shows a one-time code for it (see Your phone).