Good for multiple notes at a time! program highlight: Note previews on the sidebar. Can view other note content and jump between them so quickly. I really liked how each page displays on your sidebar with a few lines of preview. As a forgetful person it is important for me to be able to see snippets of different documents at a time, as opposed to having to jump between them again and again. On this note, the transition between pages is seamlessly fast, being that they are just rich text pages. This is opposed to multiple heavy word documents that you much flip between. What I don't like however, is how from what i remember, you must keep exporting your files to be able to read them on other documents. I remember having to do this to read on my phone, due to a lack of a mobile app. I do appreciate that things can just export as text documents. I say this because it could have been like mobile app I have which exports all notes to a single file, filled with app-to-read formatting jargon... Not sure I'll use the blogging integrations, but I just liked the app as a writer for a collection of small tidbits that I can jump between. The word count progress is a cool feature, and the tags too which I have yet to use properly. Users of a simplistic, older looking UI will appreciate how inspire looks, compared to the look of Joplin.

How I became an Inspire(d) Writer Well, I am not a writer... So what to do with Inspire writer might you ask? I stumbled over the program via GiveAwayOfTheDay, it got good reviews, so I had a look. And, I am impressed with the ease of use, quick workflow and simpleness to do some markup with it. We are in the process of writing a blog, so plenty of texts to create, this program is going to help us a lot. The only thing that I am missing is support for Joomla, the program that we use for our blog, but we will copy/paste around it until there is a better solution on hand.

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.

Great alternative to Evernote but no mobile app I've been searching for Evernote alternatives for years, and I've tried Notion(offline not supported), Simplenote(images not supported, and no folder organisation), OneNote, Nimbus Note, etc, then I came across Inspire. First impression is that I like the interface a lot. It is similar to the Apple Mail interface, and the dark mode colour is not completely black like Evernote. And there is a lot of colour to the Inspire formatting. The headings are light blue, and the bullet points are orange, for example. I wish the developer would breathe colour into the icons on the sidebar as well, but as of writing this, the icons are all greyscale and dull. One drawback of Inspire is that there is only desktop version for Mac and Windows, and there is no mobile android or iOS app that would give a seamless experience to go anywhere. I work mostly in desktop environment, and I carry my laptop everywhere, but there are moments when I want to quickly look up my notes on my phone. Also, I am used to markdown formating of using single *bold* for making bold on WordPress with EditorsKit plug-in. Inspire uses double **bold** and make the bolded characters orange, which makes me use extra keystrokes, and the editor does not hide the formatting at all after typing, leaving the #, *, _ and so on visible in the editor. Single *bold* does not give me bold; it gives me italics instead. I could not find any option to toggle on/off the formatting, nor could I find a way to customise the markup input or colour. So it’s not going to be easy just copy/pasting into Gutenberg Editor, or publishing directly from Inspire to WordPress because of the conflicts with markup. Inspire organises notes under Library(we can only one library) and groups(comparable to notebooks in Evernote), and there is one default group called ‘Inbox’. It comes empty, and there is no explanation at all about what it is. I cannot rename the ‘Inbox’ to something else, unlike the ‘Introduction’ group which has tutorial guide on how to use Inspire. Evernote does not make it easy to export my data out to import into Inspire, but Inspire does have import option of word docx and html pages. I haven't tried migrating my data from Evernote yet, but I am more pleased by Inspire than by other note-taking programs that I've come across before. The program feels light and not bloated compared to other competing note-taking apps. The drawback of there being no mobile app is the point of convenience that can hold back some from adopting Inspire into their workflow.

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..