Inkwell Library

Your Inkwell Library keeps your scripts in your Inkwell account, so the same script is there on every device you sign in on. It is free. If you would rather keep a script as a file on your own device, that works exactly as it always has.

A script has one home

Every script you open is one of two things, and the window always tells you which. The Library works in the browser editor at editor.inkwell.app and in the Mac app. In Inkwell Reader on iPhone and iPad, your Library scripts open read-only. A Library script and a local file are never kept in sync with each other. Each is its own script.

Add a file to your Library

Choose File → Add to Library on a local file. Inkwell makes a separate copy in your Library and opens it. The file you started from is not changed, moved or watched. From then on they are two scripts, and edits to one don’t reach the other.

Download a Copy

Choose File → Download a Copy on a Library script to save it as a file. The copy is a local file with no link back to the Library. You can do this whenever you like.

• In the browser editor, pick .ink, PDF, Final Draft or Fountain.
• In the Mac app, Download a Copy saves an .ink file. For a PDF, Final Draft or Fountain file, use File → Export.

Work offline

A Library script is cached on your device, so you can open it and keep writing with no connection. Inkwell shows when a script is saved on this device only, and saves it to your Library when you are back online.

Open on another device

Only one device edits a script at a time. If a script is open for editing on another device, you see it read-only with Take over. Choose it to start editing here; the other device switches to read-only and tells you so. There is no co-editing, and Inkwell never merges two versions of a script on its own. If two devices both had unsent changes, the one that saves second keeps its changes as a separate copy and says so, so nothing you wrote is lost.

Recently deleted

Delete a Library script from the Library in the browser editor. It moves to Recently deleted, where it stays for 30 days. Restore it any time in that window. Choose Delete now to remove it immediately; it can’t be brought back. Deleting your account deletes your Library.

Keep a backup folder on your Mac

If you want real .ink files of your Library scripts in a folder you control, such as one in Dropbox or your backup system, open Settings → General in the Mac app, turn on Keep backups in a folder under Inkwell Library, and choose a folder. It is off by default. Each time a Library script saves, Inkwell writes a .ink copy there. It is one-way: Inkwell writes to the folder and never reads from it, so changing a file in the folder does not change your script.

Moving from encrypted sync

Earlier Mac versions offered an optional, end-to-end encrypted sync, with a recovery kit. It is being retired in favor of the Library.

• It keeps working for scripts you already turned it on for.
• When you open one of those scripts, Inkwell offers Add to Library. Choose it to keep the script on your other devices.
• Your .ink file stays on your Mac either way.
• New scripts can’t be added to the older sync.

How Library scripts are protected

Library scripts are stored by Inkwell. They are encrypted in transit and at rest, but they are not end-to-end encrypted, which is what lets the same script open on every device. We make five commitments:

1. We never use your scripts to train AI.
2. No one at Inkwell opens your scripts without your permission.
3. Your scripts are encrypted in transit and at rest.
4. You can export them any time, with Download a Copy.
5. Delete means deleted.

The full details are in our Privacy Policy.

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