How to use Inkling

Quick start

1. 01

   Create a free account.

   Email and password, then confirm the link Inkling sends you. No card.

   Create your account
2. 02

   Ask at Quick.

   Type a question and press Enter. The sources arrive first, then the answer, with a numbered citation on each claim.

   Ask your first question
3. 03

   Go deeper when it matters.

   Switch to Pro or Research, or press Run as Research under an answer. Free currently includes 5 Pro searches a day and 1 research report a month.

   Choose a depth

Popular articles

1. 01Choose a depthOne switch sets how hard Inkling works on a question. What Quick, Pro and Research each read, and how many of each Free and Pro include.Asking and reading answers
2. 02Read an answerEvery answer says what served it, how long it took and what it read, and ties each claim to a numbered source you can preview and open.Asking and reading answers
3. 03Direct answersWhen a question needs no web search, Inkling answers directly, says plainly that nothing was searched, and gives back a Pro or Research unit.Asking and reading answers
4. 04Second opinion (Pro)On Pro, a separate model researches your question again without seeing the first answer, and Inkling marks where the two agree and differ.Going deeper
5. 05Translate a document (Pro)Hand Inkling a Word file, deck or spreadsheet and get the same file back in another language, with its layout in place. A PDF’s text comes back as Word.Translate
6. 06Allowances and resetsHow Inkling counts what you use, when each allowance resets, what it gives back, and what happens when an allowance runs out.Plans and Pro
7. 07Share an answerPublish one answer, or a whole discussion, as a public page with its sources. Sharing is on every plan; Free currently includes 20 pages a day.Discussions and sharing
8. 08Hand a todo to InklingInkling researches one todo as a single Pro search, saves the cited answer as a discussion and writes a short sourced passage under the todo.Notes and todos

Depth

The switch in the ask box that sets how hard Inkling works on a question: Quick, Pro or Research. A depth is not a plan.

Stamp

The line above every answer: a chip such as “Quick answer”, then the tier, the time taken, the sources read and any figures.

Direct answer

An answer written without a web search, stamped “nothing searched”. A Pro or Research unit spent on it is given back.

Discussion

A saved question and its follow-ups, listed in Discussions.

Things to check

Translate’s dotted underlines on the numbers, amounts, dates, durations and names it carried across.

HandlePro

On Pro, your public name. /@handle lists the pages you publish under it.