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.

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.

Very impressive software Recently I’ve been working on a similar project, which looks like OneNote but using markdown and could be easily formatted, synchronized among devices, etc. , then I searched the Microsoft Store, and found inspire just provided everything I wanted. It's really fast and easy to use, much better than those apps built on JavaScript, and the only feature I wanted is i18n supported UI . Very impressive software 😃 , Good job ~~

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.

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.