Man­age Chap­ters and Sec­tions

On the left side of the main Inkwell edit­ing in­ter­face, there is a list of chap­ters or sec­tions from your cur­rent project. Click on the sec­tions or chap­ter you want to edit.

Note that if the list of chap­ters is not cur­rent­ly vis­i­ble, you can click on the Chap­ter List but­ton on the left side of the screen:

Chap­ters List

In or­der to a cre­ate chap­ter or sec­tion, click on the In­sert but­ton: . A pop­up menu of dif­fer­ent op­tions for adding a chap­ter or sec­tion ap­pears:

In­sert Menu
  • The Blank Chap­ter op­tion will cre­ate a new blank chap­ter

  • The Up­load Chap­ter op­tion will al­low you to up­load a chap­ter from your com­put­er in for­mats like Word, La­TeX, Mark­down, or Plain­text. It will be added as a sec­tion or chap­ter to your project in Inkwell

  • The Im­port from Google Docs op­tion will al­low you to im­port a doc­u­ment from your Google Docs ac­count; it will be added as a sec­tion or chap­ter.

  • The In­dex op­tion will add an in­dex to your book.

  • The Bib­li­og­ra­phy op­tion will add a Bib­li­og­ra­phy to your project, it will au­to­mat­i­cal­ly in­clude all ci­ta­tions made us­ing the ci­ta­tion fea­ture.

  • The Notes fea­ture adds an end­notes sec­tion to your book. It will au­to­mat­i­cal­ly con­tain all end notes.

Once a chap­ter or sec­tion has been added to your project, you can drag and drop it in the list of chap­ters/sec­tions to re­order and to move it be­tween the main sec­tions: Front Mat­ter/Body/Back Mat­ter.

Each chap­ter has a sta­tus in­di­ca­tor, a small icon on the right hand side to in­di­cate the sta­tus. Click on it to al­ter­nate be­tween three avail­able sta­tus­es: , , and . These ex­ist to help you track of the sta­tus of the dif­fer­ent parts of your project, to in­di­cate progress in proof­read­ing, or to iden­ti­fy sec­tions that need fur­ther at­ten­tion, etc.