The formatting bar

Most editors give you one toolbar and expect a screenwriter, a poet and a novelist to make do with it. Inkbreaker gives you a formatting bar that is there for as long as you are writing, so you can set a style before you type a word, and that carries the controls your kind of writing actually uses.

Open a screenplay and the bar comes up with eleven controls instead of twenty-five: no drop caps, no font picker, no bulleted lists, because the format decides all of that for you. Open a chapter of a novel and it is all there, because prose reaches for all of it. You do not have to set any of that up. If our idea of what you need is not yours, open Customize this bar, switch any group of controls on or off, and move the ones you keep into the order you want them. It sticks on every piece and every machine you sign in from. On a laptop the bar sits along the foot of the screen; on a phone or a tablet it sits at the top, above your page and clear of the keyboard, which is the one part of a small screen that does not vanish the moment you start typing.