The Room With All the Dials
Every app has a settings page. Most of them feel like filing your taxes. Inkstone's is organized into sections that actually correspond to things you'll want to touch, and the defaults are chosen so you can ignore most of them until you have a reason not to.
Here's what each one does, and more importantly, when you'd bother changing it.
API Configuration
The handshake between Inkstone and your AI
This is the handshake between Inkstone and whatever AI service is generating your responses. Three fields, one button.
The Test Connection button does exactly what it says. Use it every time you change something here. It takes two seconds and saves you from staring at an error message mid-conversation wondering what went wrong.
Generation Parameters
The dials that shape how the AI writes
These are the dials that shape how the AI writes. Most of them have sensible defaults. All of them reward understanding.
Temperature controls how much the AI surprises itself. At low values (0.3 to 0.5), it picks the most probable word almost every time, producing focused, consistent, slightly predictable prose. Crank it higher (0.8 to 1.2) and the writing gets more expressive, more willing to take a left turn, more alive. Push it past 1.5 and you're in experimental territory where sentences start doing things nobody asked for.
For roleplay, the sweet spot is 0.8 to 1.0. Enough personality to feel like a real scene partner, enough coherence to stay in character.
Context Window
The AI's short-term memory
This is the AI's short-term memory. It determines how much conversation history gets sent with each message. A bigger window means the AI remembers more of your story, your character details, the thing you mentioned forty messages ago. It also means each message costs more of your API quota.
The default of 32K is a solid middle ground. If you're running long, intricate stories and your model supports it, go bigger. If you're on a budget, go smaller and let the AI forget gracefully.
Context Summary
Keep the story going, even when memory runs out
This is marked experimental because it's a genuine trade-off: you gain longevity at the cost of granularity. Fine details will blur. The broad strokes survive.
Long conversations eventually outgrow even generous context windows. This feature handles that by summarizing older messages to free up space, keeping your most recent exchanges intact and replacing the rest with a compressed version of what happened.
Ghostwriting
You supply the intent, the AI supplies the polish
A collaboration tool. Whether it's useful depends entirely on how you like to play.
Sometimes you know what you want your character to say but you'd rather not write it at publication quality yourself. Ghostwriting adds a rewrite button beside the chat composer. Type a rough draft of your message, tap the button, and the AI rewrites it in your character's voice before sending.
Display Settings
How things look and feel
Data Management
Your data, your rules
Creates a ZIP file containing your characters (as PNG cards), lorebooks, system prompts, personas, and settings. You can optionally include chat histories, though be warned: that can make the file quite large if you've been at this a while.
One thing to know: this export is a safety net, not a migration tool. You can't automatically restore it into Inkstone. It's for keeping a backup of your work or manually moving individual pieces.
API keys are not included in the export for security reasons. You'll need to re-enter them if you set up on a new device.
About
Default Values at a Glance
The full cheat sheet
| Setting | Default |
|---|---|
| Temperature | 0.8 |
| Top-P | 0.95 |
| Max Response Tokens | 1,280 |
| Context Window | 32,768 |
| Streaming | On |
| Show Thinking | On |
| Auto-Scroll | On |
| Confirm Delete | On |
| Show Token Count | Off |
| Summary | Off |
| Ghostwriting | Off |
| Debug Mode | Off |
These defaults are chosen so you can start chatting immediately without touching anything. Come back and adjust once you know what you want more (or less) of.
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