Inspire takes the friction out of writing.
What do you like best?
The upsides are that there are no distractions in the user interface and that it helps me get my ideas out of my head and onto paper very easily. The 3 simple panels give me a birds eye view of things but allows me to drill down very quickly. If you compare this to an outliner, it gives me the ability to "hoist" if you will, or drill down and just focus entirely on one piece of text/info/content. Another thing I like about it is that it incorporates Markdown. I cant imagine writing without using Markdown. This makes the content developed in Inspire very portable where I can move the content to DropBox, OneDrive or anywhere else for that matter. I love the groups and sheets concept. Sheets make it very easy to manage my content no matter if its a book Im writing or an article or anything else. This is a better tool to use as a writer than Scrivener or Speare which is a fairly new tool.
What do you dislike?
Not much to not like about this. One thing I miss is that you cant change the style as easily or even at all like you can in lets say Ulysses. Style guides would be incredible here. That said, it is possible to change the font, which is great. It really is. Another thing that I am not crazy about is that there isnt an IOS version. Again that being the case, Inspire does allow you to transfer your content to other apps through the cloud, so its not a show stopper.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
The kinds of problems Im solving are twofold. First I'm in the middle of writing Kindle books. And with all the research Im gathering, its essential to have a tool to begin putting it all together. Trying to turn all that info into a unified thought or hypothesis or angle, is tricky if you don't have the best tool to write with. The other is grants. Im using this for grant writing and managing. Organized thoughts are essential with development of grants for a nonprofit.
