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.

Inspire is a great markdown text editor helping writers to stay focused Inspire is a great text editor helping writers to stay focused. I was using Ulysses on Mac, and was looking for an equivalent on Windows. It had to : - work with plain text files (no custom database or file format) - support Markdown language - be able to share files with Ulysses with no conflict (through Google drive or Dropbox) That's exactly what Inspire does ! Now, I'm writing on Windows with Inspire with as much pleasure and focus as with Ulysses on Mac. I'm writing diary entries, novels, and blog posts. Inspire allows me to keep all my writings in one place and to organize them neatly through simple forlder structure. I do appreciate the feature allowing to post directly to Wordpress. I can work on a draft from anywhere, including when I'm offline (which helps stay focused), and then post it to wordpress once I'm ready. Is it perfect ? No, but the only (small) issue I can think of is the support of foreign characters. I'm usually writing in french, and I noticed that in some screens (not in the main editor window), accented characters are not displayed properly in the current version. But that's really a meaningless issue compare to the overall quality of Inspire :)

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.

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.