What can the Inkwell AI actually do?
It creates and updates real records rather than describing them. Say “set up a project for the Kessler rebrand and add a milestone for the design review” and the project and milestone exist afterwards. The same goes for tasks, clients, invoices, expenses, meetings and the timer — each is a real action with a confirmation step, not a suggestion you then go and do yourself.
Things you can just say
- “Set up a project for the Kessler rebrand with a milestone for the design review”
- “Add three tasks to Paper1 and mark the draft one done”
- “Start the timer on Kessler”
- “I worked two hours on Paper1 yesterday afternoon — log it”
- “What's overdue, and what's unbilled?”
- “Invoice Kessler for the hours I've tracked this month”
- “Where did last week actually go? Draw me a chart”
Everything it can do
Projects and tasks
- Create a project from a sentence describing it
- Add, edit, complete and delete tasks
- Break a project into milestones
- Schedule a meeting against a project
Time
- Start and stop the timer on a named project
- Log hours after the fact, including yesterday's
- Answer where the week's hours actually went
Clients and money
- Add a client record
- Raise an invoice against a project
- Log an expense so margin stays accurate
Finding and understanding
- Search the whole workspace in one question
- Summarise what's open, overdue or unbilled
- List projects, tasks, invoices, time, milestones, meetings and goals
- Draw a chart of something you asked about
Driving the app
- Navigate you to the right screen
- Open the capture box or a pre-filled new-project form
Does it change things without asking?
No. Every action that writes anything pauses and shows you a confirmation card first — what it is about to do and to which project — and nothing happens until you approve it. Reading your workspace needs no approval; changing it always does. That gate is declared once in the tool registry with an exhaustiveness check, so a new action cannot quietly ship without it.
Can it read my journal?
No, and there is no tool that could. The assistant has read and write tools for projects, tasks, time, clients and invoices, and deliberately none for the journal, habits or mood. Journal entries are also encrypted a second timeat the application layer before they are stored, with the key in a separate vault. Nothing you write anywhere in Inkwell trains anyone's model.
Common questions
Can the AI create projects and tasks for me?
Yes. Describe what you're taking on and it creates the project, adds the tasks, and breaks it into milestones. You can also ask it to edit or complete a task, add a client, raise an invoice, log an expense, or start the timer. Each of those runs a real action, not a suggestion.
Will it change things without asking?
No. Every action that writes anything is paused and shown to you as a confirmation card first — what it's about to do, to which project — and nothing happens until you approve it. Reading your workspace needs no approval; changing it always does.
Does it know about my actual projects?
Yes. Your live workspace is passed to it with each message, so it answers with your real project names, hours, budgets and dates rather than generic advice. If something isn't in your workspace it says so instead of guessing.
Can it read my journal?
No, and it has no tool that could. There are read and write tools for projects, tasks, time, clients and invoices — and deliberately none for the journal, habits or mood. Journal entries are encrypted a second time at the application layer and are never sent to the assistant.
Do I need an API key or a subscription to an AI provider?
No. It's built in, with no key to paste and no separate account. The free plan includes 30 assists a month; paid plans are unlimited. Client and invoice actions need Folio or Studio, because those modules are the paid part of the product.
Is what I type used to train a model?
No. Nothing you write in Inkwell is used to train anyone's model, and that is the same commitment the privacy policy makes. The assistant only runs when you ask it something — it isn't reading along in the background.
What can't it do?
It won't write journal entries, log habits or set goals — those are yours. It stays on your work and using Inkwell, so it declines general trivia, coding help and news. And it can't delete a workspace or change your billing.
Try it
The assistant is on the free plan — 30 assists a month, no card, no API key — and unlimited on Folio and Studio, which also unlock the client and invoice actions. If you want to see how it fits the rest of the notebook, the freelancer walkthrough and the handbook both cover it, and the comparisons put it next to what Notion, Linear and the others offer.