Managing Chapters

The list down the left of the editor is your project's structure. Click any entry to open it. If the list is hidden, bring it back with the Chapters button on the left rail:

If you are working on an article rather than a book, the same list shows sections instead of chapters. The rest of this tutorial says "chapter"; read "section" for articles.

The list is divided into Front Matter, Body, and Back Matter, with the details page (and the template, form, and submissions pages, when those are switched on) pinned at the top.

Inserting a chapter

Click Insert at the bottom of the list.

The menu is in three groups.

New content

• Blank Chapter — an empty chapter.
• New Part — a part divider, for grouping chapters into Part I, Part II, and so on. See Chapter Titles, Parts, and Section Headings.
• New Page — a standalone page, for front matter such as a dedication.

Import

• Upload File — bring in a Word, LaTeX, Markdown, ODT, ePub, RTF, or plain-text file.
• Import from Google Docs — pick a document straight from Google Drive.
• Import from Inkwell — pull a chapter out of an .inkwell backup file.
• Import from Template — copy a chapter out of one of the templates.

Generated sections. These build themselves from the rest of the book, so you add them once and Inkwell keeps them up to date:

• Index — see Index.
• Bibliography — every work you have cited.
• Notes — the endnotes section.
• Annotations — the second, independent family of notes; see Annotations.
• Table of Contents — see Table of Contents.
• List of Figures — every captioned figure, with its page number.

At the bottom of the menu, Restore Chapter brings back a chapter you deleted earlier.

Reordering

Drag a chapter up or down to reorder it, including across the Front Matter / Body / Back Matter boundaries — dropping a chapter under Back Matter moves it there.

Chapter markers

Chapters carry small icons that tell you something about them at a glance:

• Status — a button on the right that cycles through three states as you click it: not started, done, and needs attention. Use them however suits your process — drafting progress, proofreading passes, or flagging problems.
• Reviewing — replaces the status button while a chapter is under review.
• Assistant suggestions — marks a chapter that has unresolved suggestions from the AI Assistant. See AI Tools.
• Boilerplate — marks a chapter that came from the template and is managed by it.
• Scratchpad — marks a chapter excluded from the built book, useful for notes and offcuts you want to keep but not publish.

Both Boilerplate and Scratchpad are switched on per chapter in Local Settings; see Local Settings.