Profile and Settings

This page (reached by clicking on or hovering over your name on the top-of-page welcome message) lets you:

1. control your User Profile information
2. set Site Preferences
3. Public Documents privacy settings.

1. User Profile information

Click the "Edit Information" link (or the pencil icon) below the picture/image to edit your name, email address, password, and time zone information. It's also where you can upload a picture for this page and for document pages where you make comments. If you don't want to upload one then this default image will appear for you:





There's a separate "Bio" link that gives people some context information about you when they're reading your uploaded documents and comments; it's nice to know when a person commenting on astrophysics really is a rocket scientist!





2. Set Site Preferences

The "Notifications" link takes you to a page where you can control which email notifications you get:





The "Privacy" link lets you control how much information about your Public Documents shows on your public Profile page.





3. Public Documents

Your Profile page also displays:

• Public Documents you've uploaded (a summary count appears at the top of the page)
• Public Documents you've commented on (a summary comment count also appears at the top)
• tags you've given them
• your favorite Public Documents, whether uploaded by you or others. To get a document onto this list you mark it as a "Favorite" in three ways:
  
  
  1. click the "Favorite" link on the transparent toolbar (when you're reading the document)
  2. Favorite it from the document's Properties page.
  3. click on the document's "Options" link on your My Library page and then click this link:
     
  
  

  There's also an RSS link to let people find out about new Public Documents you upload:

  
  
  

  Private Documents won't show on the RSS feed; only people you choose to share Private Documents with can access them.