Keeping Up With the Drafts

I want to listen to a draft, stop at the sentence that needs work and give the agent a useful direction while the thought is fresh. The words, the recording and my comments should all belong to the same document, in a place where I can pick the review up again.

That is what I’m building with InkwellAI, our internal reading and review tool. Proposals, research and working documents can arrive from several projects at once. I want a clear view of what needs my attention and a comfortable way to give each piece of writing that attention.

A library of work to review

The library groups documents by project and shows review progress alongside them. A proposal can have a paper, a presentation and a cost workbook; keeping those together gives the review a shape. Search gives me another way to reach the document I want.

InkwellAI's review library, with project folders, search and review progress. — The current review library, organized around the work.

Inside a folder, the documents ready for review sit alongside supporting material. That makes it possible to move through a package while keeping the larger project in view.

A proposal folder listing its review documents and supporting context. — A proposal's documents and supporting context in one folder.

Read the page, hear the words

Listening gives me another way into a draft. I can follow the highlighted words, pause when a claim needs thought and jump back to a particular sentence. Double-clicking a narrated word moves the recording to that point without changing whether it is playing or paused.

For a PDF, the reader shows the saved pages, including their figures and tables. The narration follows the prose while those other parts remain available to inspect. That matters when the layout or a figure carries part of the explanation: I want to review the document people will actually read.

Give the next revision a direction

A useful comment can be small and specific. Who makes this decision? What happens to an incomplete submission? Could this example arrive earlier, before the abstract explanation?

Selecting the relevant words attaches the note to the passage. There is also room for a document-level comment when the issue is the overall direction. In the demonstration below, the proposal assigns a coordinator a review step without saying what that person should check. The note asks for the missing responsibility.

The Community Archive demonstration PDF in InkwellAI, with saved review notes and narration controls. — Document contents and review comments shown here are demonstration examples. A specific passage, a specific request for the next revision.

My comments give the agent both the passage to change and the reason for changing it. I can then read or listen to the next draft and judge the result.

I’m building Inkwell so I can give a proposal, a slide deck or a spreadsheet the attention it needs, then put that feedback to work. The point is to make it easier to direct what the agents produce and get to something I’m happy to use.