Managing Your Projects
Everything you write in Inkwell lives in a project — a book, an article, or a note. Your projects list is the first thing you see after signing in, and you can always get back to it with the arrow at the top left of the editor or via My Projects in the account menu.
Click a project's title to open it.
Starring and ordering
The star at the far left of each row marks a project as a favourite. Starred projects sort to the top of the default view, which is otherwise ordered by how recently you opened each project.
Click any column heading — Title, Author, Kind, or the date column — to sort by it instead; click again to reverse the order.
The date column itself is configurable. Click the small caret in its heading to choose what it shows:
- Created — when the project was made
- Last Edit — the most recent edit by anyone
- My Last Edit — the most recent edit by you
- Last Opened — when you last opened it
Your choice is remembered.
Tags
The Tags column is editable in place. Click into it, type a tag, and press Enter — the tag becomes a chip with an × for removing it again. A project can carry as many tags as you like. Tags are a good way to group projects belonging to the same series, client, or course, and they can be searched (see below).
Searching
The search box above the list narrows it as you type. As well as plain text, it understands a small query language:
| Query | Finds |
|---|---|
whale |
anything matching "whale" |
title:whale |
projects whose title matches |
author:melville |
projects whose author matches |
tag:draft |
projects carrying that tag |
kind:book |
projects of that kind (book, article, or note) |
These can be combined with AND, OR, and NOT — for example
kind:article AND NOT tag:submitted.
Removing a project
To remove a project from your account, click the red X at the end of its row.
Inkwell first shows you everyone who currently has access, because what happens next depends on who else administers the project.
- If other administrators remain, the project is only removed from your account. They keep working on it as before.
- If you are the sole administrator, removing it deletes the project from Inkwell entirely, and everyone else listed loses access — including collaborators who are not administrators.
The dialog says which of the two applies before you confirm, so read it before clicking Yes, Remove This Project.
If a project won't finish opening
Inkwell keeps a copy of your work in your browser so that projects open quickly and keep working when your connection does not. Opening a project normally takes a moment on the Loading Your Book screen while that copy is checked and brought up to date.
If it stays there, the screen offers you a way out rather than leaving you to wait:
- After a few seconds, a Reload button appears. Most slow opens are an unhappy connection, and reloading is enough.
- If it is still stuck after that, a Reset local data and reload button appears. This clears Inkwell's browser-side copy and downloads everything again from scratch.
Resetting is safe: your project lives on Inkwell's servers, and clearing the local copy does not touch it. The one thing that cannot be recovered is an edit you made while offline that had not yet synced — so if you have been writing without a connection, try Reload first and give it a moment to catch up before resetting.