Chapter Content

Upload from your device

The standard path for inserting an image from your computer.

1. Place your cursor in the chapter where you want the image to appear.
2. Click the `Image` button in the left sidebar.
3. In the small menu that opens, click `Insert Image`.
4. Pick a file from your computer. The image inserts at your cursor.
5. Drag the corner handles to resize.

Paste from clipboard

Faster for screenshots and copied web images. Click into the chapter where you want it, press `Cmd+V` (Mac) or `Ctrl+V` (Windows), and the image uploads and inserts in one step. No menu needed.

Give a photo a page of its own

Click the photo, then `Full page` in the image toolbar (on a phone, the `Page` row). The photo gets a page to itself in your book and a dashed outline in the editor so you can see which ones are set. Click `Full page` again to turn it off.

Put the photo at the very top of a chapter and it opens the chapter: the photo fills the first page and the chapter title and text start on the next. Put it after some text (for example on a Dedication) and the text comes first, then the photo on its own page. In the middle of a chapter, the text stops, the photo takes a page, and the text carries on.

In the PDF and the KDP paperback the photo prints edge to edge, so it is cropped slightly to fill the page shape. EPUB and Word give it its own page. For sharp print, use photos at least about 2,000 pixels on the short side. Check it in `Preview`.

For KDP, a book with full-page photos is made with bleed: the paperback file is slightly bigger than the trim (0.125" wider and 0.25" taller, as Amazon asks) so the photo can run off the edge when the book is cut. In KDP's Print Options choose `Bleed`, or KDP rejects the file. The READ ME FIRST file in the download says which to pick. Your text stays where it was on the page.

Good to know

• Drag the corner handles to resize after placing.
• Large images are auto-compressed on upload.
• Images are block elements (between paragraphs), not inline.
• Click an image once, press `Delete` or `Backspace` to remove.

Steps

Place your cursor where the image should go, click the `Image` button in the left sidebar, then pick `Generate Illustration` from the menu. The dialog shows the current chapter and your remaining quota.

Choose a style: Auto matches your book's genre, or pick a look such as Storybook, Watercolour, Coloured pencil, Crayon, Ink and wash, Vintage, Comic, Felt and clay, Line art, Cinematic, Flat vector, Photo, or Minimal. In a picture book, your book's own art style is selected to start with.

The "What to show" field is optional: leave it blank to draw from the chapter's content, or describe a subject (e.g. "a runner at sunrise"). Click `Generate`; the illustration drops in at your cursor.

Cost and limits

Paid feature with a monthly account allowance plus credit overflow:

• Creator: 20 illustrations per month.
• Premium and AppSumo lifetime: 50 illustrations per month (100 on AppSumo Tier 4).
• Beyond your allowance: chapter credits cover extras (1 credit per image).

Ruled answer lines

Under the question or prompt, press Enter and type a row of underscores, at least ten of them (`__________`). Press Enter (or Shift+Enter) and type another row for each line you want the reader to have. In the editor the rows look like typed underscores; when you export, each row becomes one uniform, full-width ruled line, however many underscores you typed, so the lines never wrap or come out uneven.

Leave one empty paragraph between the last line and the next question so the spacing reads as a block.

For a short blank inside a sentence ("My goal this week is ____"), use fewer than ten underscores and it stays as typed. A long run after a label ("Name: ________________________________________") prints as a fixed-width line that cannot wrap to a second row.

Write-in boxes

For a box rather than lines, insert a table with one row and one column and leave the cell empty. Empty cells keep a usable height in the PDF instead of collapsing, so a single empty cell prints as a bordered box. Add rows for a stack of boxes, or two columns for a before-and-after layout.

Checking the result

Open Preview from the editor header and switch to the PDF tab: the ruled lines and boxes render exactly as they will export. If a line still shows as underscores in the PDF, the row has text on the same line or fewer than ten underscores; put it on its own line and lengthen it.

Steps

Select the text you want to format, then use the formatting bar above the chapter text: bold, italic, underline, text colour, highlight, headings, bullet and numbered lists, quote, alignment and link. Font size and font family are under `All tools` at the end of that bar. On a phone, tap `Text`. Click the option you want and it applies to your selection.

For the basics, keyboard shortcuts skip the panel entirely: `Cmd+B` / `Ctrl+B` for bold, `Cmd+I` / `Ctrl+I` for italic, `Cmd+U` / `Ctrl+U` for underline.

Steps

The colour applies only to the selected text.

1. Highlight the words, paragraph, or block you want to recolour. Use `Cmd+A` (Mac) or `Ctrl+A` (Windows) inside the chapter to select the whole chapter.
2. In the formatting bar above the chapter text (on a phone, tap `Text`), click `Text colour`.
3. Click `Text colour` if the swatches are not already open. A small swatch grid opens with a `Custom` button for entering a hex code.
4. Pick a swatch or click `Custom` to enter a hex value. The change applies instantly.

Quote blocks

Add a styled pull-quote from the Text panel.

1. Place your cursor on the line you want to turn into a quote.
2. Use the formatting bar above the chapter text (on a phone, tap `Text`).
3. Click the Quote icon (next to the Numbered list button).
4. Click the Quote icon again to unwrap the quote.

Callout boxes (Tip, Note, Warning, Important)

Callouts are auto-styled at export time. No separate button in the editor. Start a paragraph with a trigger word and a colon; each colour maps to a trigger:

1. Start a paragraph with a trigger word and a colon. Example: "`Tip:` Always preheat the oven before baking."
2. Open the Export dialog, click the `Design` line, and toggle Callout boxes ON.
3. Export your book. The paragraphs render as styled boxes; without the toggle they stay as plain text.

Recipe cards (Ingredients, Instructions)

Recipe cards are auto-styled at export time too.

1. Inside a chapter, add a heading (H2, H3, or H4) named one of: `Ingredients`, `Instructions`, Directions, Method, Preparation, or Recipe.
2. Immediately below the heading, add a bullet or numbered list (both in the formatting bar above the chapter text) with your items.
3. Open the Export dialog, click the `Design` line, and toggle Recipe cards ON.
4. Export your book. The heading + list pair renders as a bordered card with a coloured header bar.

• Items must be a bullet or numbered list from the formatting bar. Plain paragraphs with line breaks will not trigger the card.
• Each heading + list pair becomes its own card, so `Ingredients` and `Instructions` render as two cards.

Add a section break

Place your cursor on a new empty line inside the chapter. Type three dashes (`---`) then press Enter. The dashes are replaced with a thin horizontal line that separates the sections above and below it. The line survives PDF, EPUB, and DOCX exports.

Remove a section break

Click on the line once to select it (you will see a thin highlight around it), then press `Delete` or `Backspace`. Your cursor returns to the previous line so you can keep writing.

Find and replace text

Open Tools (the wrench icon in the editor sidebar) and use Find & Replace. Type the text to find and what to replace it with. On a book with more than one chapter you can switch the scope between This chapter and Whole book, and a live count shows how many matches will change. Turn on Match case or Whole word for precise matches, then click Replace all.

Rename a character everywhere

To change a character’s name, put the old name in Find and the new name in Replace, set the scope to Whole book, and click Replace all. If the name matches one the AI already knows for this book, a checkbox appears: "Also update this book’s character list (recommended)". Leave it ticked so the AI keeps using the new name, including if you regenerate a chapter later.

Change the case of selected text

Select the text you want to convert. Open `Tools` (the wrench icon in the editor sidebar), then click `Change case`. Pick UPPER for ALL CAPS, lower for all lowercase, Title Case for capitalised words, or Sentence case for capital-first-word only. The transformation applies to your selection and the highlight stays in place, so you can apply a different case immediately if it is not what you wanted.

Check the readability of a chapter

Open Tools (the wrench icon in the editor sidebar) and click Readability. You will see three things for the current chapter: a Flesch reading-ease score, an approximate US grade level, and a plain-English label (e.g. "Easy", "Fairly easy", "Standard", "Difficult"). The score updates as you edit the chapter, so you can shorten sentences or pick simpler words and watch it move.

Most commercial non-fiction aims for a Flesch score of 60-70 (around US grade 8-9). Self-help and broad-audience books usually target 70-80. Technical and academic writing often lands at 30-50, which is harder but appropriate for the audience. The score is a guide, not a rule.

It is per-chapter, not whole-book

The score reflects only the chapter currently open. Switching chapters re-scores against the new one. Whole-book readability is not displayed because each chapter typically has a different purpose (introduction vs reference vs reflection) and a single average would hide useful variation.

Turn spellcheck on or off

Open `Tools` (the wrench icon in the editor sidebar). At the top is a `Spellcheck` switch. Flip it on to get the browser's native red-underline spellcheck across the chapter. Flip it off to hide all squiggles, which is useful when an AI-generated draft is full of names, places, or invented terms the dictionary does not know.

Your setting is remembered on this device. Switching devices will use that device's last choice. There is no global account-level setting today.

Apply a font choice to every chapter

Click `All tools` at the end of the formatting bar above the chapter text (on a phone, tap `Text`). Under Typography there are two controls: font size and font family. Each has its own `Apply to all chapters` checkbox directly beneath it. Tick the relevant box, then pick the size or font you want, and the change propagates across every chapter in one go.

The two toggles are independent. You can apply a font family across the whole book while leaving font sizes per-chapter, or vice versa. The toggles only fire on the next selection, so changing your mind is just a matter of un-ticking and picking again.

When this is useful

Most books read better with a single body font and size throughout. When you import a draft or generate with AI, individual chapters can end up with mixed sizes from copy-paste artifacts. One pass with "Apply to all chapters" ticked is the fastest way to make the whole book consistent before exporting.

Insert a page break inside a chapter

Click in the chapter where you want the break (anything after the cursor will start on a new page). Click `All tools` at the end of the formatting bar above the chapter text (on a phone, `More`, then the Insert options) and find the `Insert` section. Click `Page break`. A dashed divider appears in the editor so you can see where the break is. In the PDF export, the divider becomes an actual page break and the content after it starts on a fresh page.

When to use it

Page breaks are handy at the end of a long section, before a recipe or worksheet you want on its own page, or before a closing thought you want isolated. Chapters already start on a new page automatically, so you only need a page break inside a chapter, not between them.

Insert a table

Click in the chapter where the table should go. On the format bar above the chapter, open `All tools` and choose `Table`. Under `Insert table`, hover over the grid to choose the size, from 1 by 1 up to 8 rows by 8 columns, and click. The table appears at your cursor, ready to type in. Press `Tab` to move to the next cell.

Add rows and columns, set a header, merge cells

Click inside any cell, then open `All tools` and `Table` again. The `Edit (inside a table)` section works on the cell your cursor is in:

`Rows`: add a row `Above` or `Below`, or `Delete` the current row. `Columns`: add a column `Left` or `Right`, or `Delete` the current column. `Header`: turn the current `Row`, `Column` or single `Cell` into a header (bold, shaded in the export). `Cells`: select several cells by dragging across them and `Merge` them into one, or `Split` a merged cell back. `Delete table` removes the whole table.

Text inside cells takes the usual formatting from the format bar: bold, italic, links, lists and alignment all work inside a cell.

Make it look good

Turn the first row into a header row: it gives the table a clear top line, and the exports shade it (in your book's brand colour in the PDF, light grey in the EPUB).

Keep tables to about four columns. Columns are always equal width, and ebooks are read on phones and Kindles where a wide table gets cramped. If you need more, split it into two tables or turn the extra detail into a list under the table.

Keep cell text short: a few words or a number. Long paragraphs belong in the body text, with the table summing them up.

For worksheets and workbooks, leave cells empty on purpose: empty cells keep a usable writing height in the PDF, so readers have room to write in a printed copy.

How tables look in each export

`PDF` (including the KDP print interior): the table spans the text width with thin grey borders, slightly smaller text than the body, and a shaded header row.

`EPUB`: a full-width bordered table with a light grey header row and every other row lightly shaded. It reflows with the reader's font size, so check one table on a phone in the preview before you publish.

`DOCX` (Word): a real Word table with grey borders and bold header cells. A header row repeats at the top of each page if the table runs over a page break, and long rows can split across pages. You can adjust column widths in Word afterwards.

Tables from an imported Word file

Tables in an imported DOCX come across as tables you can edit with the same tools. Columns become equal width in the editor, so a table that relied on one very wide column may need a quick tidy: shorten the text in the cells or move long text out into a paragraph.

Bring chapters in

1. In the editor, open Chapters and press Add. A new empty chapter or page opens where you want the new ones to go.
2. Under Generate with AI and Write it myself, click bring in chapters from another book or document (on picture and colouring books: pages from another book or your own images).
3. Choose Inkfluence books and pick one of your books, or choose Upload a file and drop in a Word, PDF, EPUB, Markdown or text file; the chapters are split the same way as a dashboard import. On a picture or colouring book, choose Upload images and drop in PNG, JPG or WebP files instead: each image becomes a page, in file-name order.
4. Untick anything you do not want, then press Add. The chapters take the place of the empty one, in the order shown.

Good to know

To combine two books into one, open the book that should come first, add an empty chapter at the end, and bring in every chapter of the second book.

If a picture or colouring page shows "This page has an image in its text", the image was pasted rather than set as artwork. Click Use as artwork and it prints as a full page.

Starting a new book from your own finished page images? Start a Picture book and choose I already have my pages at the top of the Picture book step instead: it makes the whole picture book in one go, each image a full page (see How to create an illustrated picture book).

Changed your mind? Press Undo on the message that appears after adding, within 10 seconds, and the book goes back exactly as it was.

Audiobook recordings are not copied. Record the new chapters in the audiobook studio if the book has one.