Settings

The Settings page (sidebar → Settings, header “AI and the app, your products, and channels.”) has three tabs, picked with the switch at the top:

Tab	Address	Shown under the switch	Cards
General (the default)	/settings	“AI provider, keys and budget; how the app runs.”	AI, App
Products	/settings?tab=products	“Your products, where Startica reads their results, and the sites it checks.”	Products, Connections for product, Issue tracker for product, Sites for product
Channels	/settings?tab=channels	“Finding conversations and posting: X and Mastodon.”	X API (optional, paid), Posting, Elsewhere

This page lists every field on them, what it does, its default and limits, and where the value ends up in the local database. The page refreshes itself when any of the underlying tables change, so a sync finishing in the background shows up without a reload. Links elsewhere in the app such as “Add one in Settings” open the Products tab. Two kinds of storage are mentioned below:

Storage	What it means
Secret	A row in the secrets table, encrypted. In the desktop app the encryption key lives in the OS keychain (macOS Keychain, Windows DPAPI, Linux libsecret). In browser dev mode a key file in the data folder is used instead. See Data folder.
Plain	A normal row in the SQLite database (startica.db), readable by anyone who can open the file.

General

AI

The card description shows the provider in use, each key’s status and the budget: “Using Claude (Anthropic).” (or “Using OpenAI.”), “Anthropic API key: saved”, “OpenAI API key: not set” and “Monthly budget: $n.” A missing key for the provider in use shows “not set” in red.

Provider, keys and budget

The button reads Add API key until the provider in use has a key, then Change keys or budget. It opens “AI provider”:

Field	Rules	Default	Storage
Use	Claude (Anthropic) or OpenAI.	Claude, or the provider with a saved key	Plain, settings table key ai_provider
Anthropic API key	Must start with sk-ant-. Required if Use is Claude and no key is saved. Once a key is saved the label reads “(leave blank to keep the saved one)”; otherwise, for the provider not in use, “(optional)”.	(none)	Secret anthropic_api_key
OpenAI API key	Must start with sk- (and not sk-ant-). Same rules as above.	(none)	Secret openai_api_key
Monthly budget (USD)	Required, at least 1, at most 10,000.	50	Plain, settings table key ai_monthly_budget_usd

Switching provider moves every task still on the other provider’s models to the new provider’s recommended models (see the defaults below). Tasks already on the new provider’s models keep their settings.

When the provider not in use has a saved key, a Remove Claude (Anthropic) key or Remove OpenAI key button appears next to the main button. It deletes that key. Any task you routed to that provider’s models stops working until you add the key again.

How they are resolved at run time:

• Key: each task’s model decides the provider, and the call uses that provider’s saved key. Without one, the call fails with “No Anthropic API key: add one in Settings → General → AI (the task task uses model)” or the same for OpenAI.
• Budget: the saved value, else 50. A value that is not a positive number falls back to 50. One budget covers both providers.
• Enforcement: before every AI call, Startica adds up the estimated cost of this month’s calls (from the 1st of the month, local time). When spend has reached the budget, the call is not made, it is logged as blocked, and the job fails with “Monthly AI budget reached ($spent of $budget)”. See Costs.

Get a key at platform.claude.com → API keys or platform.openai.com/api-keys. See Anthropic API key and OpenAI API key.

The welcome wizard’s Connect AI step saves the same provider, key and budget. See First run.

Model for each task

The table sits in a collapsed section, Advanced: the model for each task (“Picking a provider sets these to its recommended models; change one only if you have a reason to.”). It lists one row per task with its Model, Effort and Max tokens. The pencil opens “Model for ‘task’” (“Applies to the next job that runs this task.”). Storage: plain, ai_models table. Each row shows the model’s name and price with its ID below. The rows are created with Claude’s defaults the first time the app starts; choosing OpenAI (in the wizard or in the AI card) moves them to OpenAI’s:

Task	Description shown	Claude default	OpenAI default	Effort	Max tokens (Claude / OpenAI)
answer	AI visibility: answering your questions with web search, as an assistant would	claude-sonnet-5-5	gpt-6.1-sol	low	4,000 / 8,000
draft	Reply and post drafts	claude-sonnet-5-5	gpt-6.1-sol	medium	4,000 / 8,000
image	Ads: drawing ad pictures (OpenAI only; effort is the image quality)	gpt-image-2.5-flare	gpt-image-2.5-flare	medium	4,096 / 4,096
ping	System health check	claude-haiku-5-5	gpt-6-luna	low	256 / 1,024
research	Web research on competitors and communities	claude-opus-5-5	gpt-6.1-sol	high	16,000 / 32,000
score	Scoring conversations for relevance, and reading AI visibility answers	claude-haiku-5-5	gpt-6-luna	low	1,024 / 2,048
strategy	Briefs, positioning, roadmap and weekly re-plan	claude-opus-5-5	gpt-6.1-sol	high	16,000 / 32,000
vision	Reading images in threads and screenshots	claude-sonnet-5-5	gpt-6.1-sol	medium	4,000 / 8,000

OpenAI’s output limits are higher because they include reasoning tokens.

The image row is the exception to the provider switch: it’s always on an OpenAI image model, so choosing Claude doesn’t move it, and drawing an ad picture needs an OpenAI API key even when Claude is in use. See The image task.

Rows appear sorted alphabetically by task. Which jobs use which task is listed in Background jobs.

Edit dialog fields:

Field	Options	Notes
Model	Claude Fable 5.1 ($10 / $50 per M tokens), Claude Opus 5.5 ($4 / $20), Claude Sonnet 5.5 ($2 / $10), Claude Haiku 5.5 ($0.1 / $0.5), GPT-6 Astra ($10 / $50), GPT-6.1 Sol ($2 / $10), GPT-6 Luna ($0.1 / $0.5). For the image task instead: GPT Image 2.5 Flare ($5 / $30) and GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst ($5 / $30).	Prices are input / output per million tokens. Stored as claude-fable-5-1, claude-opus-5-5, claude-sonnet-5-5, claude-haiku-5-5, gpt-6-astra, gpt-6.1-sol, gpt-6-luna, gpt-image-2.5-flare, gpt-image-2.5-sunburst. Saving needs a key for the model’s provider; otherwise: “Add an Anthropic API key first (Change keys or budget)” or the same for OpenAI. An image model on a text task fails with “Image models only draw pictures: pick a text model”, and a text model on the image task with “Pick an image model for this task”.
Effort	low, medium, high, xhigh, max	Pre-selects medium if the row has none. Labelled Quality for the image task, where it’s the picture’s quality.
Max output tokens	Whole number from 256 to 64,000	A response that hits the limit fails as truncated.

If a task’s row is missing, Startica uses the defaults above for the provider in use. The answer row is added to existing workspaces when they update to the version with AI visibility, on the provider of their draft model. The image row is added, with gpt-image-2.5-flare at medium, when they update to the version with ad creatives.

App

“Scans, syncs and the weekly re-plan only run while Startica is open (closing the window keeps it running in the tray).”

Item	What it does
Open Startica in the tray when I log in, so scheduled scans and syncs keep running	Installed app only. Turns launch at login on or off; it’s the same setting as Launch at Login in the tray menu and the wizard’s Open Startica when I log in. Elsewhere the card says “Launch at login: available in the installed app.” See Running in the background.
Data folder: path	Where Startica keeps its database and files. View opens it in Finder, Explorer or your file manager. To change it, see Data folder.
Run setup again	“Opens the welcome steps again and brings back the Getting started checklist on Today.”

Run setup again opens the welcome wizard (Welcome to Startica) and, if you hid it, brings back the Getting started checklist on Today. The wizard starts at the first step that isn’t done; with a key and a product already saved, that’s A few extras. Nothing you saved is reset. See First run.

Value	Storage
Launch at login	The operating system’s login items, not the database
Whether the wizard was finished or skipped, and whether the checklist was hidden	Plain, settings table key setup ({ "welcomeDone": …, "checklistDismissed": … })

The wizard opens by itself only while there’s no product and welcomeDone isn’t set. Run setup again clears both flags.

Products

Products card

“The things you market and check with Startica. Pick one to see its connections and sites below; the header’s switcher sets the product the rest of the app shows.”

Click a product’s name to show its Connections, Issue tracker and Sites below (the address gets &product=…). This doesn’t change the active product: Active marks the one the rest of the app shows, and Showing below marks the one you picked, when they differ.

The table lists each product’s Name (with an Active badge on the one selected in the header, and the one-liner underneath), Website and Stage, plus an edit (pencil) button. With no products it shows “No products yet. Add the first one to get started.” The Connections, Issue tracker and Sites cards below only appear once a product exists.

Add product opens the “Add a product” dialog (“After adding it, open Intel to build its brief.”). The pencil opens “Edit name” with the same fields:

Field	Required	Values and rules	Default
Name	Yes	Any non-empty text.	(none)
Website	Yes	A full URL, e.g. https://fieldnote.app. Error otherwise: “Enter a full URL, e.g. https://example.com”.	(none)
One-liner	No	One sentence (“What it is, in one sentence”). Blank is saved as empty.	(empty)
Stage	Yes	Idea, Pre-launch, Launched, Growing (idea, pre_launch, launched, growing).	Launched

Storage: plain, in the products table. Adding a product also makes it the active product (a cookie named for the product switcher, valid for a year), so Intel opens on it.

Per-product scoring thresholds

Each product also has two scoring thresholds (stored in the products table). A conversation found by listening gets a draft only if its scores meet both; otherwise it is archived. Pasted links ignore them.

Column	Default	Meaning
relevance_threshold	0.7	Minimum relevance score (0 to 1).
intent_threshold	0.5	Minimum intent score (0 to 1).

Change them with Scoring in the Inbox toolbar; see Finding conversations. Other per-product settings (your notes, keywords, watched communities, voice profiles) live on their own pages: see Finding conversations and Voice profiles.

Connections

The card is titled Connections for product, for the product picked in the list (the active product unless you pick another). “Where Startica reads this product’s results. Engagement on Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, Mastodon and Discourse needs no setup.” Each connection belongs to one product; click another product in the list above to configure its connections.

Every connection row shows a status badge, a short description, “Last synced date” once it has synced, any error, and a trash button to remove it (after a confirmation; its saved credential is deleted too).

Badge	Meaning
Not connected	Nothing saved.
Checking…	Saved, not tested yet (a test sync is queued on save).
Connected	The last sync succeeded.
Error	The last sync failed; the error is shown.

Google Analytics 4

“Visits by source, key events, and visits from each Startica reply.”

Connect (or Replace key once saved) opens “Connect Google Analytics 4”. It says Startica reads GA4 with a service account, a key that can only view the properties you add it to, and lists the setup steps. Fields:

Field	Notes
Property ID	Required, digits only (hint: “In Google Analytics: Admin → Property details.”). Otherwise: “The GA4 property ID is a number (Admin → Property details)”.
Service account key	Choose file… loads the downloaded .json file, or paste its contents. It must be a whole service account key ("type": "service_account" with client_email and private_key). Otherwise: “Paste the whole service account key: the contents of the .json file, starting with {”. Leave it blank when replacing to keep the saved key.

The dialog lists the three setup steps above the fields, with links to Google Cloud’s Data API and service accounts pages. Save and test stores the key encrypted and queues a test sync. Once saved, the row shows “Property id”. Full walkthrough: Google Analytics.

Umami

“Visits, visitors, sources, pages, custom events, and visits from each Startica post. Use it instead of Google Analytics, or as well (Google Analytics is used when both work).”

Connect (or Change once saved) opens “Connect Umami”: “Startica reads your Umami statistics with an API key. It only reads; nothing is changed in Umami.” It lists two setup steps (create an API key under Settings → API keys, on Umami Cloud or your own Umami 3.4 or later; for read-only access, put the website in a team, add a view-only user to that team as view-only and create the key as that user; on older installs, username:password of a view-only user; copy the website’s ID from Settings → Websites → Edit). Fields:

Field	Notes
Server	Empty for Umami Cloud (placeholder: “Leave empty for Umami Cloud, or https://umami.example.com”). Hint: “Your own Umami: its address. Startica adds /api.” cloud or a cloud.umami.is address also means Umami Cloud (https://api.umami.is/v1); umami.example.com is saved as https://umami.example.com/api. Otherwise: “Enter Umami Cloud, or your Umami’s address (e.g. https://umami.example.com)”.
Website ID	Required. Otherwise: “Paste the Website ID from Umami (Settings → Websites → Edit); it looks like 4fb7a6c2-…”.
Key events (optional)	Custom event names, separated by commas (placeholder: “signup, purchase”). Hint: “Custom event names that count as conversions. Empty: every custom event counts.”
API key	An umami_… key, or username:password on an older self-hosted Umami. Leave it blank when changing to keep the saved key.

The footnote says “Startica checks the key can read the website before saving. It’s stored encrypted on this computer.” Save and sync first checks that the credentials can read the website and that the server answers like Umami’s API with that website’s ID (skipped in demo mode); a problem shows in the dialog and nothing is saved. Then it saves and queues a sync. Once saved, the row shows “Umami Cloud” or the server, “website first 8 characters of the ID…” and the key events. Full walkthrough: Umami.

Google Search Console

“Searches you’re found for: clicks, impressions, positions, and your sitemaps. Shows on SEO & GEO → Search.”

Connect (or Change once saved) opens “Connect Google Search Console”: “Startica reads Search Console with a service account: read-only, and it only sees the properties you add it to.” It lists three setup steps (enable the Google Search Console API, create a service account or reuse the GA4 one, add its email in Search Console under Settings → Users and permissions → Add user with Restricted permission), with links. Fields:

Field	Notes
Property	Required (otherwise: “Enter the Search Console property, e.g. example.com or https://example.com/”). Hint: “A domain on its own means a Domain property (sc-domain:). Use the full address for a URL-prefix property.” fieldnote.example is saved as sc-domain:fieldnote.example; https://fieldnote.example as https://fieldnote.example/.
Use the GA4 service account key	Only when the product has a GA4 connection. Ticked by default for a new connection. When ticked, the GA4 connection’s key is used, any key pasted below is ignored, and a key the connection had of its own is deleted.
Service account key (Or a service account key of its own when GA4 is connected)	Choose file… loads the .json file, or paste its contents. Same check as GA4’s key. Leave it blank when changing to keep the saved key.

The footnote says “The first sync reads the last 16 months, which can take a minute. The key is stored encrypted on this computer.” Save and sync first checks that the key can read the property (skipped in demo mode); a problem, such as “The service account can’t read …”, shows in the dialog and nothing is saved. Then it saves and queues a sync. Once saved, the row shows the property, plus “· uses the GA4 key” when it does. Full walkthrough: Google Search Console.

Bing Webmaster Tools

“Optional. Clicks and impressions from Bing and Copilot (Bing reports them together), and top queries and pages, updated weekly by Bing.”

Connect (or Replace key once saved) opens “Connect Bing Webmaster Tools” with two setup steps (add and verify the site in Bing Webmaster Tools; generate an API key under Settings → API access). Fields:

Field	Notes
Site	Required, the site as Bing Webmaster Tools lists it (otherwise: “Enter the site as Bing Webmaster Tools lists it, e.g. https://example.com/”). A bare domain gets https://, and a trailing slash is added.
API key	The key from Bing. Leave it blank when replacing to keep the saved key.

The footnote says “A Bing API key can do anything your Bing Webmaster Tools account can; Startica only reads with it. It’s stored encrypted on this computer.” Save and sync first checks that the key can read the site (skipped in demo mode) and shows any problem in the dialog; then it saves and queues a sync. Once saved, the row shows the site. Full walkthrough: Bing Webmaster Tools.

Stripe

“Active subscriptions, MRR, new subscriptions and cancellations.”

Connect (or Replace key once saved) opens “Connect Stripe” with one field, Restricted key (rk_live_…), and the button Save and test. The key needs Read access to Customers, Subscriptions, Prices and Invoices and nothing else. The dialog lists the three setup steps, with a link to Stripe’s Create restricted key page (https://dashboard.stripe.com/apikeys/create). Full walkthrough: Stripe.

Product database

“Product numbers like signups and active users, through a read-only login that sees daily totals only. Works with Supabase and any Postgres.”

Control	Shown when	What it does
Set up / Change setup	Always (Change setup once connected)	Opens “Connect the product database” (below).
Use a URL instead	Always	Opens “Connect with a connection URL”: “Advanced: if you made your own view and read-only login. The view must return (day date, metric text, value numeric). Startica tests the login first and refuses one that can change data.” Fields: View (required, schema.view, lowercase; default startica.daily_metrics) and Connection URL of a read-only login (postgresql://…; leave it blank to keep the saved one). Button: Test and save.

Once set up with Set up, the row shows “Tracking: metric names · host”.

“Connect the product database” says: “You run a short SQL script in your own database. It creates a view with daily totals only, and a read-only login that can see nothing else. Startica connects with that login. It never needs a login that can change your data.” It has three steps:

Step	Fields and buttons
1. Pick what to count	One row per metric: Metric name (lowercase letters, numbers and _), Table (schema.table; public when no schema is given), Date column (default created_at) and Count per day (Rows, or Distinct… with the column to count). A new setup starts with signups: rows of auth.users by created_at. Add metric (up to 12) and a trash icon per metric. Write the SQL writes the script; changing a metric afterwards hides it until you write it again.
2. Run this SQL in your database	The script, with Copy, and a link to the Supabase SQL Editor. Other Postgres: run it with psql as the database owner. The script includes the read-only login’s password; when the product already has a connection, it reuses that login’s password.
3. Paste your connection string	Hint: “Supabase: Connect at the top of your project → Transaction pooler. Leave [YOUR-PASSWORD] as it is.” Startica keeps the host, port, database and options and signs in as startica_reader with the script’s password. When changing an existing setup, leave it empty to keep the saved database.

I ran it: test and save checks the login (it must not be able to change data) and reads the view, then saves the connection and queues a sync. In demo mode the check is skipped. Errors and what they mean: Product database.

Analytics shows signups and active_users by name; other metrics are stored too.

Sync now

Sync now appears once the product has at least one connection and queues a metrics_sync job for all of this product’s connections, including Search Console and Bing. Syncs also run automatically every day at 08:15 local time while Startica is open.

Where connections are stored

Value	Storage
Pasted credential (service-account JSON, Umami API key or username:password, Bing API key, Stripe key, connection URL) and the product database’s read-only connection URL	Secret, named connection-<connection id>. A Search Console connection that uses the GA4 key has none of its own.
Property ID, Umami server, website ID and key events, Search Console property, Bing site, whether the GA4 key is reused, view name, database host, Supabase project ref, metric definitions, status, last sync, errors	Plain, connections table
Search data (clicks, impressions and positions per day)	Plain, search_stats table
Search Console sitemaps, as last read	Plain, setting search_sitemaps:<product id>

Saving a connection with the secret field left blank keeps the saved credential. Credentials are only read from Settings. There’s no environment variable for any of them, in development either.

Issue tracker

The card is titled Issue tracker for product, for the product picked in the list: “GitHub or GitLab: where Startica opens issues for the accessibility problems it finds, so they land in your normal workflow.” Each product can connect one repository. Without one, the card says “Not connected.” with Connect.

Once connected, it shows the service and repository (for example “GitHub: fieldnote/web”) with a badge: Connected, Error, or Checking… while the token hasn’t been checked yet. Below that, one line describes what Startica does, for example “Opens issues automatically after each scan for new serious and critical issues (at most 10 a scan); closes them when fixed. 3 opened so far.” or “Opens issues when you click Create issue. 0 opened so far.” The last error, if the last request failed, is shown in red. It clears after the next request that succeeds.

Button	Shown when	What it does
Connect / Change	Always (“Connect” until a repository is saved)	Opens the Connect GitHub or GitLab dialog (“Startica opens an issue in the repository for each problem its checks find: by hand from an issue’s page, or automatically after each scan.”), with steps for creating a GitHub or GitLab token.
Disconnect	A repository is connected	Asks “Disconnect the repository? Issues already opened stay in it.”, then deletes the tracker, its saved token and Startica’s record of the issues it opened.

Dialog fields:

Field	Rules	Default	Storage
Service	GitHub or GitLab	GitHub	Plain, issue_trackers table
Repository	owner/name (GitHub) or group/project (GitLab), placeholder “owner/name or group/project”. A web address is accepted; a trailing .git is dropped. Anything else: “Enter the repository as owner/name (GitHub) or group/project (GitLab)”.	(none)	Plain, issue_trackers table
Access token	Required the first time (“Paste an access token”). Hint: “Stored encrypted on this computer and only sent to that service.”, or once saved, “Leave empty to keep the saved token.”	(none)	Secret issue-tracker-<tracker id>
Labels for new issues	Comma-separated, at most 10 (extra ones are dropped).	accessibility	Plain, issue_trackers table
Open issues automatically after each scan	No, only when I click Create issue, For new critical issues, For new serious and critical issues, For new moderate, serious and critical issues or For every new issue.	No	Plain, issue_trackers table
Open issues automatically for security findings (use only with a private repository)	No, only when I click Create issue, For critical findings, For high and critical findings, For medium, high and critical findings or For every finding except FYI. Applies to findings from scans and monitoring, within the same 10 a run. Security issues get your labels except accessibility, or security if that leaves none.	No	Plain, issue_trackers table (auto_min_security)
Close the issue when Startica sees it fixed, and reopen it if it comes back	Checkbox	Ticked	Plain, issue_trackers table
Server (only for GitHub Enterprise or self-hosted GitLab)	Empty for github.com and gitlab.com. Must be https:// (“Use an https:// address for the server”); http:// only for a server on this computer or network. For GitHub Enterprise Server, the API address, such as https://ghe.example.com/api/v3.	https://api.github.com or https://gitlab.com	Plain, issue_trackers table

“Startica checks the token can see the repository when you save.” Save and check saves the settings, then reads the repository with the token. If that fails, the settings stay saved, the dialog shows the error and the card shows Error. The issues Startica opened are recorded in the tracker_issues table.

Full guides: Issues in GitHub or GitLab and GitHub and GitLab.

Sites

The card is titled Sites for product, for the product picked in the list: “The websites Accessibility checks. Scans, issues and pages are on the Accessibility screens.” With no sites it shows “No sites yet.”

Column	Shows
Site	The name, linking to Accessibility → Overview for that site, with the start address underneath.
Pages per scan	The page cap for a full scan.
Score	The latest site score out of 100, or “–” before the first scan.
Target	The target score.

Each row has Site settings and Remove site, the same as on the Accessibility Overview. Add the site (for the first one, filled in with the product’s name and website) or Add a site sits in the card header. The site settings, including Target score (1–100, default 90), are described in Accessibility: Site settings. Storage: plain, sites table.

Channels

X API

The card is titled X API (optional, paid). “With your own X API bearer token, Startica also finds X posts matching your top listening keywords, reads pasted X links and checks replies on what you post there. X charges per post read (about $0.005 each), so Startica scans at most every n hours and stops at n reads a day (about $cost). Without a token, paste X links as before.”

The card shows “Token: saved” or “Token: not set” and “Reads today (UTC): n of cap.” When the last X search failed, a red line below says “Last X request failed: reason.”, for example “No X API credits left”, “X refused the token (revoked or without access)” or “X rate limit; Startica tries again next scan”. It clears after the next successful search. See When a search fails.

Button	Shown when	What it does
Add token / Change	Always (“Add token” until a token is saved)	Opens the X API dialog (“Create an app at console.x.com, add credits, and copy its Bearer Token (shown once). It’s stored encrypted on this computer and only sent to api.x.com.”).
Remove	A token is saved	Asks “Remove the X API token?” (“Startica stops reading X; pasting X links keeps working.”), then deletes the saved token. The limits are kept.

Dialog fields:

Field	Rules	Default	Storage
Bearer token	Any text. Once a token is saved the label reads “Bearer token (leave blank to keep the saved one)”.	(none)	Secret x_api_bearer_token
Most post reads per day	Required, whole number from 10 to 10,000. Below 10: “At least 10 (X returns at least 10 per search)”.	100	Plain, settings table key x_api
Scan X at most every … hours	Required, whole number from 1 to 168.	6	Plain, settings table key x_api

How they are resolved at run time:

• Token: the saved token. Without one, X isn’t searched and X links aren’t read. There’s no environment variable for it.
• Reads today: counted per UTC day in the settings table key x_api_usage. Searches, pasted X links and engagement checks on X links all count. Lowering the cap applies to today straight away.

Full guide: X API (optional, paid).

Posting

“Post… opens the site in Startica’s posting window with your reply filled in; you press the site’s own button. You sign in to each site once, in that window. Mastodon replies and posts go out from your own server.”

The card shows “Mastodon server: server.” or, until one is set, “Mastodon server: not set (Post… stays hidden for Mastodon).” Edit opens the Posting dialog:

Field	Rules	Default	Storage
Your Mastodon server	Your server’s name, for example mastodon.social. You can also enter your handle (you@mastodon.social) or the server’s address with https://; Startica keeps just the server name, in lowercase. Anything else: “Enter your server’s address, e.g. mastodon.social”. Empty turns Mastodon posting off.	(empty)	Plain, settings table key posting

The welcome wizard’s Your Mastodon server (optional) field sets the same value. The setting is for the whole workspace, not per product. Sign-ins for the posting window aren’t stored here; see Data folder. How posting works: Posting with Startica.

Elsewhere

“Settings that live next to what they change.” Two links:

• Intel: watched communities and listening keywords. See Finding conversations.
• Inbox → Scoring: what gets a draft, the per-product scoring thresholds.

Not on this page

Setting	Where
Launch at Login	Besides General → App: the tray (menu-bar) icon menu, installed app only, or Open Startica when I log in in the welcome wizard’s last step. See Background.
Automatic update checks	The tray menu: Check for Updates… and Check for Updates Automatically, installed app only. See Updating.
Data folder location, port, disabling jobs	Environment variables. See Environment variables.
Watched communities, including Mastodon hashtags and Discourse forums	Intel → Communities. See Finding conversations.
API key status, this month’s spend, job history	The System page. See Background jobs.
AI visibility: weekly runs and the cost cap per run	Settings on SEO & GEO → AI visibility, per product: Run every week (default off) and Cost cap per run, in USD ($0.10 to $50, default $2). Plain, settings table key ai_visibility:<product id>. See AI visibility.