AI Tools

The AI menu collects Inkwell's assisted-writing features. All of them produce suggestions that you accept or reject — nothing rewrites your manuscript on its own.

Most of these require a paid plan. On a free plan the entries are greyed out and the dialog offers a link to change plan. If you would rather have AI usage billed to your own OpenAI or Anthropic account, you can save a key under My Account — whichever key you save also decides which company's models these tools run on. See Your Account and Plan.

Copyeditor

Copyeditor reviews the current chapter and marks up suggested edits in place.

Before it runs you choose a Tone: Neutral, Academic, Professional, Concise, Conversational, Friendly, or Creative. This is a project setting, so it is remembered between runs. Click Review to start.

When the review comes back, suggestions appear as tracked changes and a small toolbar appears with four controls:

• Previous and Next — step between suggestions.
• Accept — take the suggestion.
• Reject — discard it.

Alongside them is a Feedback Intensity slider. Sliding it down hides the more marginal suggestions and leaves only the ones the copyeditor was most confident about; sliding it up shows everything. It is the fastest way to do a light pass first and a thorough one later without re-running the review.

What the AI sees

Every tool here reads your chapter as text rather than as a laid-out page, and a few things are worth knowing about how that text is put together.

Equations come through as the LaTeX behind them, and citations as a short key — [@Smith2019] — with the full source listed at the end of the chapter. So the tools can tell whether a sentence agrees with the equation beside it, or whether a claim matches the work it cites. Both are passed through untouched: suggestions change your prose, never your mathematics or your bibliography.

Your comments are left out entirely. Notes you leave for yourself are yours, and the AI is neither shown them nor able to edit them.

Formatting is not part of what the tools read. Bold and italics, figures, tables and lists lose their shape in the text handed over, so a suggestion will never be about how something looks — only about what it says.

General Feedback

Where the Copyeditor edits sentences, General Feedback comments on the chapter as a whole — structure, argument, pacing — and presents its notes alongside the text rather than as changes to it.

Insert

Insert generates new content at the cursor. Describe what you want in the Instructions box and click Insert. It is best suited to scaffolding — a first pass at a summary, a transition, a caption — that you then edit.

Book Index

Book Index builds an index for the whole book by reading it and choosing entries. Three options control the scope:

• Index Front Matter — include front matter.
• Index Back Matter — include back matter.
• Include Footnotes — index the notes as well as the body.

Click Build Index to schedule it. Indexing a whole book takes a while, so it runs in the background; the index page shows that a build is scheduled and lets you cancel it. Editing the result is covered in Index.

Assistant

Assistant applies one instruction across the entire document — "make the dialogue punctuation consistent", "convert British spellings to American", "tighten the passive voice" — and suggests edits everywhere it applies.

Type the instruction and click Schedule. Like the index builder it runs in the background, and Inkwell says it will be ready within 24 hours. You can carry on working meanwhile.

When it finishes, chapters carrying unreviewed suggestions are marked in the chapter list, and you step through them with the same Previous / Accept / Reject / Next controls as the Copyeditor.

Chatbot

Chatbot opens a chat panel docked to the side of the window. It answers questions about Inkwell itself — how a feature works, where a setting lives — and is also reachable from the marketing site and the projects list. You can copy a reply, rate it up or down, or remove a message from the conversation.