This software is quick to learn, it's beautiful and totally distraction free. I've only been using Inspire for a few days but so far I'm thrilled! As a PC user, I've long envied the software available on Apple computers. For years, I've looked for a text editor that's attractive, simple to use, and makes organizing thoughts easy. I've found software that meets one or two of those criteria but Inspire is the first one I've found that does all three. One of the options that I found looked great and seemed like a powerhouse at organizing research and ideas but was way too complex for my needs. I'm not a novelist, just someone who writes regularly and has a hard time staying focused. This software is quick to learn, it's beautiful and totally distraction free. Oh, and crucially, it auto-saves my work and backs up to the cloud so I don't worry about losing anything. I love that markup and navigation are simple and can be done without leaving the keyboard. I have had to get used to new keyboard shortcuts but that's been pretty straightforward and the payoff makes it well worth the adjustment. I think my favorite thing about Inspire was how quickly I went from downloading the software to having a clean, distraction-free writing space open and working for me.

Writing between Windows and Obsidian with Inspire Writer I was looking for a very simple Markdown writer app as a fiction writer. I have recently taken up the Obsidian notetaking app, and enjoyed learning Markdown with that. I wanted a simple but speedy writing app to take over the complexity of Scrivener. I can write in Obsidian but there are still many issues - tables in particularly are difficult in Obsidian's markdown format. After trialling Inspire Writer for 7 days free trial I was overjoyed to find that I could simply map to my Obsidian notes folder on my PC, and writing in both has real time saves. Write a new note in Inspire Writer, and it appears immediately in Obsidian. Inspire Writer adds some additional benefits - tables and footnotes are really easy with a popup box to input into. Much easier than even Obsidian's Advanced Tables plugin. Inspire lets me tag files (called sheets) with inhouse tags also (not affecting my metadata tags inside of Obsidian) which I use for other purposes. Inspire publishes to Medium and Wordpress also, a huge bonus for blog posts. The only downside to Inspire is its image view and insert functionality. Inspire only deals with external images (hosted on the web, so only URLs). Obsidian holds images inside the Obsidian folders for copy/pasted/dragged images. Inside of Inspire the same note.md file only shows the Obsidian URL for this internal image, and does not show the image. The ease of doing markdown tables and writing quickly when drafting made me take the purchase option for Inspire Writer.

For years I couldn't find a way to type… For years I couldn't find a way to type on a laptop without having to edit my writing just by seeing it appear on the screen. It was a nightmare, I tried it all, dragon, word, final draft etc... All I needed was a tool, much like the old typewriters, I never expected to find a friend. Inspire writer is that friend. I truly recommend it.

I've been working within the Inspire… I've been working within the Inspire Writer tool for several weeks, and so far it does what I'd been hoping for, which is to provide a transition from Ulysses for someone, like me, who is moving from a Mac to a Windows machine. The main thing I was looking for was the ability to see just a section of a document at a time. It's odd that so few Windows writing tools do this. Scrivener does, but it's still stuck at version 2.0 (versus 3.0 for the Mac), which means the software interface is archaic, the menus overly complicated, and the font management lacking. Inspire Writer, in contrast, has the "clean" interface that has become the expected norm for writing tools these days. It doesn't try to do too much, and in the process does what it's trying to do quite well. I'm trying it out side by side with Typora, CherryTree, and a few other such tools. I'm not sure which I'll end up using, but I'm guessing it'll be Inspire Writer based on my experience thus far. It takes me a long time to make a decision like this. But once I'm into a tool, I become a lifer, or something close to it..

I've been using this app for two years… I've been using this app for two years now and I love it :). I use it both for specific projects (blog posts, reviews, articles) and to gather ideas and small loose texts that I wouldn't know how to archive if I used other heavier programs like Word. I especially like it for first drafts, where I can write quickly, without having to dwell on formatting or presentation details. Once I have finished the first draft, I export to Word, for example, and finalise the details there; but for the first draft, Inspire is my first choice.