User guide

Everything you write lives in one folder of plain .md files. The sidebar on the Mac and iPad, and the first screen on iPhone, lists them with the most recently edited at the top.

Make a new document with the compose button in the toolbar. It starts untitled — the first heading you type becomes the name you see in the list. Rename or delete a document from its context menu: press and hold on iPhone and iPad, or right-click on the Mac.

Folders are optional. If you never make one, the library stays a flat list. Make one from the new-folder button and it becomes a real subdirectory on disk — the same folder you will see in Finder or in the Files app.

Tapping a folder swaps the list for that folder's contents, with a link at the top to go back up. Folders nest as deep as you want. New documents are created inside whichever folder you are looking at, and you can move an existing document into another folder from its context menu.

Pull the document list down to reveal the search field. It searches document titles and the full text of every document, across every folder, not just the one you are in.

A result shows the document's title with the matched word highlighted. When the match is in the body rather than the title, a short extract of the surrounding line appears underneath, so you can tell drafts apart before opening one. Clearing the field puts the list back.

Deleting a document does not destroy it. It moves to Recently Deleted, a row pinned to the bottom of the library that opens its own list.

From there you can restore a document to where it came from, or delete it permanently. Search covers your live documents only — Recently Deleted is not searched.

One column, generous margins, and nothing in them. Markdown styles itself as you type, and the markers stay visible in a dimmed grey rather than disappearing — the file on disk is always exactly what is on screen.

Block markers hang in the left margin instead of pushing your text sideways, so every line of body text shares one left edge no matter what kind of block it belongs to.

Table syntax is not styled. Indenta leaves it exactly as you typed it, on screen and in print.

On iPhone and iPad the formatting controls ride on the keyboard, appearing with it and going away with it: headings one through six, bullet and numbered lists, bold, and link.

On the Mac the same controls sit in a footer along the bottom of the editor. It stays out of the way until you move the pointer down to it. Each control toggles — applying a heading to a line that already has that heading takes it off again.

Three typefaces: monospace, which is the default and the one the app was designed around; sans; and a neo-grotesque. All three come from the system, so Indenta bundles no fonts of its own.

On the Mac you can set the width of the writing column to narrow, medium, wide, or the full window. Text size follows the system setting, so changing Dynamic Type on iPhone or iPad changes Indenta with everything else.

Printing does not print the editor. The document is laid out again for paper: the Markdown markers are gone, headings are set as headings, lists as lists, and code in a monospace block.

On the Mac, File ▸ Print, or File ▸ Export as PDF to write the same layout to a file. Page Setup chooses the paper. Change from A4 to Letter and the document repaginates for the new size rather than being cropped to it. On iPhone and iPad, share the document from the editor and choose PDF.

When you are signed into iCloud, Indenta keeps your library in your own iCloud Drive, in a folder named Indenta. It appears in the Files app and in Finder next to everything else, and the same documents show up on every device signed into the same account.

When there is no iCloud account, Indenta stores the library locally on the device and carries on without comment. Nothing is lost; the documents simply do not travel.

Because these are ordinary files, you can add to the library from outside the app — copy a .md file into the Indenta folder and it appears in the list.