Index

Add an index with Insert → Index in the chapter list. Opening it gives you the index management page.

Across the top is a row of tabs: a + tab for adding entries, and then one tab per initial letter once you have entries, plus a % tab for anything that does not start with a letter. The letter tabs are how you review a large index without scrolling through all of it.

Building an index with AI

If the book has no entries yet, the page offers Build index using AI.

Reading a whole book takes a while, so the build is scheduled and runs in the background — the page shows Index Build Scheduled with a Cancel button while it is pending. There are options for whether to index front matter, back matter, and footnotes; see AI Tools.

Adding entries by hand

The + tab has an Add Index Entry box. Type the text of the entry and add it; Inkwell searches the book and attaches the entry to every matching occurrence.

Add Multiple Entries takes a list — one entry per line — and adds them all at once, which is much faster than typing them one at a time when you are working from a prepared list.

Working with an entry

Each entry has:

• An editable text box — change the wording and every occurrence follows.
• Toggle Italics — for titles and terms that should be set in italics in the printed index.
• Remove entry — removes it from the whole book.
• Show Entries — expand to see every place in the book the entry occurs.
• A Note field, for a cross-reference such as see also.

Expanding an entry lists every occurrence with a checkbox. Clear a checkbox to drop that occurrence from the index — this is how you deal with a word that appears in passing in places that are not worth indexing.

Each occurrence also has a Subentry field. Filling it in groups that occurrence under a subheading, so one entry can be broken down by topic.

Merging entries

Drag one entry onto another to combine them. Useful for singular and plural forms, or different spellings of the same name, that should share a single index entry.

Starting over

Clear Index removes every entry, which is the way to begin again after an AI build that did not suit you.

Index entries in the text

Index markers can be shown or hidden in the editor with Tools → Index Entries. You can also mark a specific piece of text as an index entry directly with the Index Entry button on the toolbar, rather than matching on a word throughout the book.