Inspire WriterReviews of inspire-writer.com

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.

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.

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.

# Review on Inspire Writer for Windows This is the kind of a non-distracting typing tool on Windows. It really gets you into writing right away. What makes it special is that You can have all your clear area to start typing, yet, you still have all the features you need to support your writing activity. For instance, it has this wonderful Markdown system. If you want to have a headline, a list, or such, then you only have to type it (don't need to find the menu to do these). For example if you want to make a Headline 1 just type # in the beginning of your sentence. Then to make headline 2, just type ## in the beginning of your sentence, and so forth. Simple as that. When you type a numbered list, just start with 1. and it will automatically numbered your list. Or you can try with the dash mark - to start an unordered list. If you forget the Markdown code, you can just click the bucket icon on the lower left side of your typing area. Another good thing I like with this app is that we can easily export our writing directly to our WordPress blog. Complete with the tags as well. So don't let the clear and simple appearance fool you. Inspire Writer back you up with all the necessary tools in hand. Even in the fullscreen view, the tools are just beside you (on your left screen) with subtle grey color, so it's still not distracting while you're typing.

The user interface is distraction free and quite simplistic - perfect for a writing tool. You got cloud service and the typical markdown-editor-system if you are into that. Furtherthemore its actually very fast and can handle bigger documents like champ. for me its the perfect Ulysses-alternative while working on windows. I miss a double-window-mode for better multitasking experience. the pricetag is a lil bit too high in my opinion. i'd prefer a monthly-based fee. Inspire-writer is a markdown-editor with document management. All sheets and folders are in a database, which can either be stored online (cloud service) so can continue your work from whereever you please to do so. Furtherthemore it is syncing quite fast and pretty stable. I personally love the user interface, since its straight forward, fast and distraction free, which is perfect for a decent writing experience. Since im a journalist i havent tested it for a bigger project than some 15.000 character stuff but i've heard that it should behave quite fluently as well. The only thing I am missing is a double-window-mode, so i can work on two documents at the same time. Or to check on some notes i've made while writing my essay - so i'd very much like to see some improvements for multitasking stuff.

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..