> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# v1.6.0 — Share a draft, get the notes back

> Send each reader their own private link to your pages. They read in any browser — no app, no account — tap the lines they react to, and their notes come straight back into Inkwell, beside the passage they're about. Plus a tidier toolbar, cleaner PDFs, and Quill edits that wait for you across a relaunch.

> [!NOTE]
>
> Released **October 31, 2026** · [Download the latest version](https://inkwell.app/download)

## Highlights

**Share a draft, and get notes you can actually use.** Choose **File → Share Draft…**, type who it's for, and send the link. Your reader opens it in any browser — phone, tablet or computer, no app and no account — and reads your pages exactly as they'd print. When something lands (or doesn't), they tap that line and leave a note. It comes back into Inkwell beside the passage, even after you've rewritten around it.

**Private by design.** Your pages and every note are encrypted on your Mac before they leave it. Inkwell stores them, but can't read them.

![A shared draft of THE LAST FERRY in a desktop browser. Tess's speech is selected and a note box beside it reads: Ha! Tess earns this laugh. Maybe let Margot take a beat before she answers? Below it, the reader's earlier note has a reply from the writer marked New reply.](https://mintcdn.com/inkwell/T9SkbcLpSetuxMo4/images/share/reader-note-desktop-crop.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=T9SkbcLpSetuxMo4\&q=85\&s=fda6c6ff805e3e9d332ffd39e539883a)

Your reader taps a line, writes a note, and it comes straight back to you.

## New

* **Share Draft.** Make a link for each reader in seconds from **File → Share Draft…** (`⌥⇧⌘S`) or the paper-plane button at the top of the window. Every link carries the reader's name, so you always know whose note is whose.
* **A passphrase for every link.** Inkwell suggests an easy-to-say one, like `maple-orbit-tuesday`. Send it separately from the link, and the link alone won't open your draft.
* **Links that close themselves.** Choose 7, 30 or 90 days. Extend a link whenever you like, or revoke it in one click — your reader sees "This draft is no longer shared."
* **A frozen copy.** Readers see the draft you sent, even while you keep writing. Done a new pass? **Reshare** sends that reader the new pages.
* **Know who's read it.** See when each reader opened your draft, how far they got, whether they finished, and how many notes they left. Readers are told about this on the cover.
* **A reading page your readers will like.** Your pages exactly as printed on a computer, and a comfortable one-column Reading view on phones, with page markers so "page 42" still means page 42. A Scenes list, text size, dark mode, and it remembers where they left off. Your script's title never shows up in their browser history or in link previews.
* **Notes from one reader, or the whole room.** Keep each reader's notes private to you, or let a group see each other's — great for a writers' group or after a table read.
* **Reader Notes.** Open **View → Reader Notes** (`⌥⌘N`) or click the **Notes** button — its badge counts new notes — to see every note beside your script, with a mark in the margin you can click. Notes follow the passage through your rewrites; if you've changed it too much to match, they wait under **Unanchored notes** with the text the reader saw. Reply (your reader sees it on the page), resolve, or delete.
* **Manage All Links.** One list of every active link across all your scripts.

![Inkwell with the Reader Notes panel beside the script. Sam's note reads: This is the line that got me. I had to put the phone down for a second. Below it is your reply: That one took eleven drafts. Glad it landed. Margot's speech is highlighted in the script with a note marker beside it, and the Share and Reader Notes buttons sit in the top bar next to Quill.](https://mintcdn.com/inkwell/T9SkbcLpSetuxMo4/images/share/mac-reader-notes-crop.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=T9SkbcLpSetuxMo4\&q=85\&s=8805a24181b6b145264b0762e41882c9)

Notes sit beside the passage they're about.

Sharing is free when you're signed in: keep up to 3 links active at a time, or up to 50 with Quill Pro. It never uses Quill credits. Notes never change your script file, and your private `[[notes]]`, revision marks and Quill's pending suggestions are left out of the shared copy.

[Learn how to share a draft →](https://docs.inkwell.app/sharing/share-a-draft.md) · [Send your readers this page →](https://docs.inkwell.app/sharing/opening-a-shared-draft.md)

## Improved

* **A tidier toolbar.** **Share** and **Notes** now sit beside **Quill** at the top of the window. In a narrow window, Beat Board, Revision and Focus fold into a single **…** menu so nothing gets squeezed. The Find button is gone from the toolbar — `⌘F` still finds, exactly as before. And the pointer is a normal arrow over the top of the window, not a text cursor.
* **Quill's suggestions wait for you.** Edits Quill has suggested but you haven't accepted or rejected yet are still there after you quit and reopen Inkwell.
* **Cleaner PDFs.** Quill suggestions you haven't accepted no longer print, and neither do Fountain force markers (`@`, `>`, `!`, `^`). Sides, cue scripts and dual dialogue now get their (MORE) and (CONT'D) where they belong.

## Fixed

* A suggested deletion stays a deletion after you save and reopen the script.
* One script can no longer end up open in two windows through Save As or a rename. If a script's file is moved or deleted while it's open, the window warns you before it closes, so you don't lose what's on screen.
* Switching between Inkwell accounts on the same Mac keeps each account's synced scripts separate.

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> [!TIP]
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> See [all releases](https://docs.inkwell.app/whats-new/overview.md) for the full history.


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