Hi Ivanovich,
Sorry, there must be something wrong. We are a different Inspire Team. The profile of the Inspire Team you posted looks amazing though. :-)

Zen ,

Sorry for the late reply. And thanks so much for your questions. I'll try to answer some of them here, but we might need more information from you to answer the other questions.

1) The readme.txt file provided by GOTD has the registration information in it. So you can copy and paste the information to Inspire to get it activated.

2) & 3) Sorry about what happened. We'd love to take a look at these problems and see what we can do to help. If it's not too much to ask, would you please send us an email so we can provide more assistance? We don't have your personal info, so we won't be able to reach out from our end. Sorry about that.

Regarding what would happen in a year, we could only say that you won't be able to use Inspire for writing when the key expires, and you can export your files and save them locally before the key runs out.

But this could be just a temporary suggestion, because we're still working on how far you can go with the expired key. We're just a small team, and we're still exploring new ways and opportunities to meet the need of the majority.

Again, thanks for your comment. Looking forward to your email. :-)

Sophie, Thank you. Today is different. I can retrieve the taskbar and system tray by clicking on them. The width of the window is cured by going into full screen, not by the button that tells you to (or you see almost nothing) but by clicking the thing on the top right corner of the page next to the X for exiting.
My comments were a first reaction, I have told you the solutions which may help if anyone else comes with the same problems. The problems do exist but are easily solved each time.
I cannot find where to change the font, either typeface or size. Otherwise it looks quite nice.

D Murphy,

Thanks for the suggestion. We'll think it through and see if we can land the optimum solution for it. :-)

Breagha, Exporting to .DOCX will be read by Open Office. ^< ^

Dae Powell, yeah, I know. But as far as they've come, they still mess up the formatting now and again.

It's better with a dedicated export.

Dae Powell, I'm struggling with this concept because I can't get me head round why would anyone compose using one program then export to another when you can do the whole thing in Open Office to start with?

D Murphy, because of the minimalistic UI. For just creative writing, all the bells and whistles of an office suite text editor are nothing but wasted screen space at best and a distraction at worst.

This offer today is attractive precisely because it isn't an office suite text editor.

I use LibreOffice for when I need to pretty a text. I prefer something less intrusive when I actually get the text down.

Breagha,

Thanks for the suggestion. We'll make it a new feature as quickly as we possibly can.

TK, you're right, and I mostly use the hot keys, so my toolbars are less filled than an out-of-the-box installation.

However, Inspire is distraction free from installation, has an insignificant learning curve, and a focus on writing rather than the visual looks of the writing.

I'm not trading in LibreOffice for Inspire, but Inspire is excellent for concentrating on just getting the words down. The highlighting is bugging me, though, but so far that's the only fly in the ointment :P

stan,

Thanks for pointing that out, and we're sorry that we didn't get it right in the first place.

In short, Inspire is a light markdown writing app for your writing of any kind. It creates a distraction-free environment for you to fully immerse in your work. If you happen to know a thing or two about markdown language, you'd find Inspire worthy of a try. If you don't, that wouldn't be a big deal, because you can use Inspire just like how you would use any other writing apps.

We'll get started on the update of the copy writing for Inspire. Thanks again for your comment.

stan,

Thanks for your improvement idea. And we're glad to tell you that you win a life-time license for it. Congrats!

Feel free to send us a reminder email so we can send you the key at your earliest convenience. :-)

Sophie,

That's nice. Thank you. I received a no reply email from you, so I reply here.

As to your reply to my comment, although I write extensively, I don't "know a thing or two about markup language." Maybe I should.

Remember the radio station WIIFM - what's in it for me. :)

Tell the world the benefits - the ADVANTAGES of using markup... and Inspire.

I look forward to knowing WHY I should use markup... and Inspire. And then maybe the lifetime license will be useful.

Cheers!

stan, you bear some responsibility in your own learning. Have you looked up anything at all, especially the differences between markdown and markup, or do you expect every software developer to walk you through completely? From my understanding, this offering wasn't about educating us on what markdown is, but rather, providing us (those of us for whom this may be useful) a tool that uses markdown. Besides, at least part of your request was addressed in the description. Your comment, like numerous others for this offering, seems like complaint bait.

Lee,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. We'll take these suggestions into consideration and see what we can do about them.

Thanks again.

spyglass, I believe the point of commenting here is AFTER you "will give it a go"

PhotoGuy,

Sorry that I didn't make myself clear enough in one of the replies.

It's not that you "must 'reach out' to renew". The discount we offer for the renewal is simply a nice gesture we make for users from Giveaway of The Day.

And we value GOTDers so much that we just need to do something in return. Thus with the discount offer. Hope you could understand.

You can of course choose to pay the full price for our software when it expires if it works out better for you.

Feel free to let me know if there is more that you need to know.

Best,
Sophie

Dollinha,

Thanks for asking.

No, Inspire doesn't work with Grammarly at the moment. But thanks for the heads-up, we'll take it into consideration.

Bob, too many negative votes -- some people can't appreciate a joke!

Exploro,

By official site, just pay $29.99, you can get a life-time license. :D

Exploro,

Thanks for the suggestion. And sorry for the confusion.

We'll review the page more carefully next time to avoid similar incidents.

hussein,

Thanks for asking.

Not for the moment. But it's part of our developing plan. And we'll sure spread the words out when portable version is available.

Pedro,

Thanks for your suggestion.

We agree with you on this, and we'll prioritize this feature in our developing plan. :-)

matyka,

Sorry about what happened.

Would you please check if you accidentally run two or more Inspires at the same time?

Feel free to let us know how it goes.

Sophie

Hi,

This (https://www.inspire-writer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/screenshot_4_700.png) (hope the link can be seen) is what we mean by saying "markup-based text editor with syntax highlight".

Feel free to try it out in Inspire, and let us know how you think about it.

Thanks.

Sophie

question,
In the time you typed out the comment, you could have just tried it out in Inspire and let us known what you saw.

Sophie,
What is the length of the license for those without a "best improvement idea"?

Nigel,
"the best" means only one can get the life-time license! :D

Nigel,

The license offered in this promo lasts for a year.

If your license is about to run out, feel free to reach out and we'll offer you a discount for the renewal of a life-time license.

Best,
Sophie

Nigel, on all other localized gaotd pages you find !1-year license" for those not lucky to find the "best improvement idea". Hope this helps ;)

Sophie,
How long is "lasts for years"? you seem to be going out of your way to be evasive.

Nigel,

The license offered in this promo lasts for a year, i.e. one year. Sorry that I didn't make myself clear enough.

Best,
Sophie

Sophie, very boring interface. you need to navigate from one page; too many other places to go. and if you want to inspiire; make it have options like a powerpoint. otherwise it just a very dull typewriter.

Bob,
Sorry that I'm not a native English speaker, and that I may have used the term wrong.

And thank you for pointing it out so I can have the opportunity to correct myself.

What I meant is, we welcome all constructive suggestions from you. Because we believe they will help to make Inspire better.

Thanks again.

Nigel, Sophie said "The license offered in this promo lasts for a year" not "lasts for years." If I were in Sophie's shoes, Id feel like you were going out of your way to be critical.

Sophie, I use a lot of similar software and I did not at all expect to like this one as much as I have just in the past couple of hours. What stands out to me compared to the competition is how cleanly this one handles footnotes (including the export process). I am quite torn though because, without a keyboard shortcut for footnotes, it is practically not worth the time honestly. If it has ctrl+alt+f (to use MS.Word's hotkey) for footnotes, it could be my daily driver.

Sophie, you write FAR better English than I could Romanian! :-)

farhang,

Thanks for pointing that out. We'll add the keyboard shortcut support for footnote real soon. Feel free to let us know how you like it when this feature is live. :-)

Sophie,

My apologies, my dyslexia kicked in and I read your earlier answer wrong. My bad.

Sophie, When you say the license lasts for a year. For me the word license has two possible meanings could you clarify.
Is it
1. Todays download goes on working forever but you can't update after a year. As per most GAOTD offerings
or
2. The program will stop working after a year so it will have to be bought or uninstalled in a years time. And if uninstalled any documents left in inspire format will be inaccessible at that point.

Sophie, I would like to offer an idea that other users may not have thought about and I don't think is available from you at this time. Personally, I would enjoy the option to add templates or other add-ons to format your writing in specific ways. Ex: Movie screenplays, stage plays incl. musicals, novels and other long form writing, etc. This is something that is either missing or sorely lacking in other word processors that are free, OS, or "clean [and] simple". Thanks for your attention.

D Murphy,
I could only say that at the time being, the latter description is more accurate.

But we keep developing Inspire at a fast pace, just as you can see in our update history. We can't say for sure if the same pattern will stick in a year's time. We need more time to work out the best way for our users.

But we can say one thing for sure: you can buy the life-time version of Inspire at a discount when the key expires in a year.

Feel free to follow us on Facebook and get more update information about Inspire.

Sophie, A simple Android/OS app would be a perfect compliment.

Be able to set the Background colour (think wordperfect 5.1)

Outliner view based on markup (headings etc)`

michael,

Thanks for your suggestions.

A portable version is already in our developing plan, and we'll see how we can move faster.

We're working on the dark mode for Inspire now, and it should be live in the next version.

We'll take it into consideration.

Again, thanks for your comment.

To the GOTD team:
This subtle distinction is important, and from today onwards you really must always include a statement describing which of these two possibilities applies, for each and every giveaway that offers a time-limited license.

Mostl software vendors use possibility #1 and you can still keep using the app but with no updates after the time period expires, but a small proportion of vendors do stop their app from working once the license expires.

BradS,
Thanks for your suggestions. We'll see what we can do from there. :-)