---
key: set-your-profile-preferences
title: Choose where Nova opens and how it looks for you
audience: staff
section: your-profile
routes: ["/profile/preferences"]
features: ["core.profile"]
since: 0.0.1
updated: 0.0.1
status: published
summary: Pick the page Nova opens on, your default workspace, your work mode, 12- or 24-hour times, whether menus remember their layout, and your Android app tabs.
keywords: [start page, home page, landing page, 24 hour clock, time format, default workspace, work mode, android tabs, menu, typing indicator]
related: [update-your-profile-details, switch-between-your-organizations, turn-on-work-modes, choose-your-menu-size]
---

Select your picture or initials at the right end of the top bar, select **Profile**, then choose the **Preferences** tab. The page address is `/profile/preferences`.

Every choice here is yours alone and saves the moment you change it. A small **Saved** appears on the card. Nothing changes for the rest of your team.

## Steps

1. Under **Default landing page**, pick a page in **Landing page**, such as **Dashboard**, **Schedule** or **My Day**. Nova opens it when you sign in directly. A link someone sent you still opens that link instead. Pick **Use system default** to clear your choice.
2. Under **Default workspace**, choose which workspace opens first. Most people keep **Organization Workspace**. If you also work in an **Enterprise Hub**, you can start there instead.
3. Under **Work mode** (only shown when your company offers more than one), pick the layout you work in, or **Auto** to follow what your admin set for your role. Your permissions do not change.
4. Under **Time format**, pick **Regular (12-hour)** or **24-hour**, or go back to your company's setting. This applies in the company you are working in.
5. Under **Menu layout**, leave **Save menu layout** on to have the sidebar groups you opened or closed stay that way next time. Turn it off to start from the default each time.
6. Under **Android tabs**, choose the tabs the bottom bar of the Nova Android app shows. Pick **This organization** or **All organizations** first, add or remove tabs, then press the save button under the list. **Use inherited default** removes your choice.

## What you see

- **RCS typing indicators** at the top appears if you text customers. Turn on **Keep my typing private from customers** if you do not want customers to see that you are typing a reply, then press **Save typing settings**. It only matters for customers on RCS messaging.
- **Current choice** and **Current mode** show what is in use now, including your company's default when you have not picked one.

## If something looks different

- **Time format** is greyed out and says the organization controls it: your company does not allow personal time formats. A saved choice of yours comes back if it allows them again; **Clear saved preference** removes it.
- The Android tabs note says the organization controls them: your company has fixed the tabs for everyone.
- **Work mode** says the organization manages it: your admin has fixed your mode. See [[turn-on-work-modes]].
- A page is missing from **Landing page**: your role cannot open it.