# Settings Reference

Every setting in [Project Settings](https://astroeditor.danny.is/project-settings/), and what Astro Editor uses when you haven't set it. [How settings work](https://astroeditor.danny.is/project-settings/#how-settings-work) explains what's read from your project and what's stored. Where the settings files are is in [Advanced Preferences](https://astroeditor.danny.is/reference/advanced-preferences/).

Each setting lives in one place: the collection or the project. The image settings can be set for the project and changed for each collection, and a collection's new file type falls back to your [Preferences](https://astroeditor.danny.is/preferences/).

## Collection settings

| Setting | When it's not set |
| --- | --- |
| [**Folder**](https://astroeditor.danny.is/project-settings/#files) | Read from the collection's `glob()` loader. If Astro Editor can't read the loader or its `base`, `<content folder>/<collection name>` |
| [**Show files Astro skips**](https://astroeditor.danny.is/project-settings/#files) | Off: files the loader's pattern leaves out aren't shown |
| [**Sort**](https://astroeditor.danny.is/project-settings/#files) | Published date, newest first, with undated files at the top. Without a published date field, title |
| [**Type**](https://astroeditor.danny.is/project-settings/#new-files) (new files) | The **New file type** preference. If the collection's pattern only includes `.md` or only `.mdx` files, that type, and the setting is ignored |
| [**Name**](https://astroeditor.danny.is/project-settings/#file-names) (new files) | `{YYYY-MM-DD}`: today's date |
| [**Title**](https://astroeditor.danny.is/frontmatter/special-fields/#title) | A text field named `title` |
| [**Description**](https://astroeditor.danny.is/frontmatter/special-fields/#description) | A text field named `description` |
| [**Published date**](https://astroeditor.danny.is/frontmatter/special-fields/#date) | The first date field in the schema named `pubDate`, `date` or `publishedDate` |
| [**Draft**](https://astroeditor.danny.is/frontmatter/special-fields/#draft) | A true/false field named `draft`. Without one, there's no draft badge or filter |
| **Image folder** | The project's |
| **Image paths** | The project's |
| [**Link URLs**](https://astroeditor.danny.is/editor/links/#configuring-a-url-pattern) | A relative file path |

The field settings look in the collection's generated schema. Without one, Astro Editor uses the names above and reads them from each file's frontmatter.

## Project settings

| Setting | When it's not set |
| --- | --- |
| [**MDX components folders**](https://astroeditor.danny.is/project-settings/#mdx-components) | `src/components/mdx` |
| [**Add imports**](https://astroeditor.danny.is/editor/mdx-components/#adding-imports) (MDX components) | Off |
| [**Image folder**](https://astroeditor.danny.is/project-settings/#images) | `src/assets`, with each collection's images in a folder named after it |
| [**Image paths**](https://astroeditor.danny.is/project-settings/#images) | Relative to the file |
| [**Content folder**](https://astroeditor.danny.is/project-settings/#content) | `src/content` |