# Review on Inspire Writer for Windows # 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.

Inspire Writer - elegance in action I used Inspire Writer for the duration of the trial. My work moves between Mac and PC. Ulysses is my preferred writing app on Mac and up until now I have not found an equivalent app for PC. But, thankfully, Inspire Writer is the perfect answer. There is a seamless transition between my Mac and my PC with my writing projects. Inspire Writer is the gorgeously elegant, distraction free writing tool for me. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Patrick Griffin, Ireland.

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.

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.