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Writing Documents

Organize your documents in folders, write in the editor, set document guidance, use focus mode, export, and restore earlier versions.

The Write section (/dashboard/inkwise/write) is where your documents live and where you do your writing. It has two parts: a workspace for organizing documents, and the editor you open to write one. AI features and review tools inside the editor are covered on their own pages — see Writing with AI and Reviewing Your Document.

The Write workspace

Open Write to see all your documents. A folder rail sits on the left and a document grid on the right; drag the divider between them to resize.

Folder rail. Organize documents into folders:

  • All Documents and Unfiled sit at the top, each showing a count. Unfiled holds documents that aren't in any folder.
  • Your own folders are listed below, each with its document count. Hover a folder to rename (pencil) or delete (trash) it.
  • Click New folder (the folder icon next to the "Folders" heading) to create one.
  • Search documents… filters the grid by title as you type.

Note: Deleting a folder doesn't delete its documents — they're moved to Unfiled.

Document grid. The grid shows the documents in the selected folder:

  • The sort dropdown offers Last updated, Title A–Z, Title Z–A, Newest first, and Oldest first.
  • Each document is a card showing its title and when it was last updated. When you're viewing All Documents, a card also shows which folder it's in, and you can move a document to another folder from the card.
  • If nothing matches, you'll see No documents found — Create a new document to get started.

Create a document

  1. In the grid, click New document.
  2. In the New Document dialog, enter a Title (defaults to Untitled document) and choose a Folder (or leave it on Unfiled).
  3. Click Create & Open. The document opens in the editor, ready to write.

Tip: You can also start from a template — see Templates.

The editor

The editor opens with the document title at the top and a status line beneath it showing the current version and whether guidance is set (Guidance active or No guidance set). Click into the title to rename the document.

Write in the central canvas (it shows Start writing here… when empty). A formatting toolbar runs along the top of the canvas with:

  • Bold, Italic, Heading 1, Heading 2, Bullet list, Numbered list, and Blockquote.
  • Undo and Redo.
  • Table — set rows and columns and insert a table; once your cursor is inside a table, Table tools lets you add or delete rows and columns or delete the table.
  • Page break.
  • Notes — add a Footnote or Endnote at the cursor.
  • Comment and the Track changes switch — both part of the review workflow, covered in Reviewing Your Document.

Saving. Click Save at any time. Inkwise also saves automatically when you click away from the editor, and each save advances the document's version number.

Document settings and guidance

Click Settings in the editor header to open Document Settings:

  • Document title — the same title shown in the header.
  • Document guidance — a free-text prompt describing the purpose, audience, tone, or constraints for this document (for example, "Draft a professional memorandum for a CPA audience; keep the tone concise and support claims with bound references."). This guidance steers the AI's grounded writing tools and predictions.
  • Citation style — how Inkwise formats citations in this document: Default, APA, MLA, Chicago, Bluebook, or No Citation Needed.

Click Save settings to apply.

Note: Choosing No Citation Needed still keeps evidence available behind grounded suggestions, but stops Inkwise from adding new inline citations, footnotes, and endnotes.

Focus mode

Click Focus mode to write full-screen with everything else hidden. In focus mode you can still Save, toggle the background white-noise sound on or off, and click Exit focus (or press Esc) to return.

Export

Open the ⋯ (more) menu in the editor header to export the finished document:

  • Export as PDF — download a PDF.
  • Export as DOCX — download a Word document.
  • Export to Drive — save it to a Google Drive folder you pick. (Requires the Google Drive connection.)

Version history

Every save creates a revision. From the ⋯ menu, choose Version history to open the revision panel:

  • Pick any Revision from the list to preview its title, guidance, and a Diff Preview that highlights what was added or removed compared with the previous revision.
  • Click Restore to make the selected revision the current document.

Delete a document

To remove a document, open the ⋯ menu and choose Delete document.