# Inkwell Features

A professional screenplay editor, down to the details.

The headline feature is a writing partner that waits to be asked. But under it is a complete, keyboard-first screenplay editor: formatting, structure, revisions, and interchange that hold up in a real production. Here is everything Inkwell does.

## Write at the speed of thought

- **Auto-formats as you type.** Type a slugline, a character cue, or an action line, and Inkwell formats it the instant you do. No style menus, no manual indents, no fighting the page.
- **Tab to cycle elements.** Tab and Shift-Tab move a line through Scene Heading, Action, Character, Dialogue, Parenthetical, and Transition. Your hands never leave the keyboard.
- **Smart Enter and force markers.** Enter promotes the next element the way a screenwriter expects. Lead a line with @, !, ~, or > to force any element when you want to override the guess.
- **Every element, one shortcut away.** Set any element type directly: Control-Command-1 Action, Control-Command-2 Scene Heading, Control-Command-3 Character, on through Transition and Lyric. The bindings follow the screenwriter convention.

## See the whole story at once

- **Beat board.** Plot on cards in a board view, rearrange the story until it works, then drop straight back into the page. Same document, two ways to see it.
- **Outline navigator.** A live outline of acts, scenes, and headings in the sidebar. Jump anywhere in a long script without scrolling for it.
- **Notes and synopses, inline.** Drop [[notes]] and = synopses right in the script. They travel with the file, show when you want them, and never reach the printed page.
- **Find and replace.** Command-F across the entire script: dialogue, action, scene numbers and all, with replace when you need to rename in one pass.

## Ready for the room, not just the draft

- **Revision Mode.** Industry-standard revision tracking, with colored generations and revision marks, so a locked script can change on set without anyone losing the thread. Turn it on from the Revision menu when the pages lock.
- **Generate Sides.** Pull every scene a character appears in into a clean, page-numbered set of sides, ready for the table read or the day's shoot. One step, from File, Generate Sides.
- **Title pages.** A proper title page, edited in place (File, Edit Title Page) and carried through every export.
- **Industry-standard PDF and print.** Export or print pages that look like they came off a production printer, with the margins, scene numbers, and page breaks a reader expects.

## Works with everyone else

- **Final Draft (.fdx), in and out.** Import and export FDX without dropping a scene number, a dual-dialogue cue, or a note. Send pages to a producer who lives in Final Draft and they will never know you didn't.
- **Fountain.** Open and save plain-text Fountain, the portable format the rest of the indie world writes in.
- **Industry-leading PDF import.** Pull a locked PDF back into a fully editable script. Sluglines, cues, and action recovered with a care most importers can't match.

## And Quill, only when you ask

Brainstorm a scene, punch up a line, or catch a voice that's drifted. Every idea comes back as a diff you accept or reject. Useful when you want it, invisible when you don't.

## Links

- Overview: https://inkwell.app/index.md
- Quill: https://inkwell.app/quill
- Reader: https://inkwell.app/reader
- Pricing: https://inkwell.app/pricing
- FAQ: https://inkwell.app/faq
- Download for macOS: https://inkwell.app/download/mac