# Space menu & Ideas

> The Space menu in InnerHook, a lyrics writing app: on an empty line, continue the song, write a verse or chorus, or get Ideas for what's next.

Canonical: https://innerhook.com/docs/space-menu/
Last updated: 2026-10-06

When you don't know what comes next, press Space on an empty line. A small menu, **✨ Write here**, offers to continue the song, write a verse or a chorus, write whatever you describe, or suggest ideas. It reads the whole song first, so what it writes fits what's already there.

## Where to find it

Put the cursor on an empty line and press Space. The line can be in the middle of a section, at the end of the song, or the first line of an empty song. The menu opens at the cursor:

- **Describe what to write…**: type your own request, for example "two lines about the drive home with the radio off", and press Enter.
- **Continue writing**: the next line or two, picking up from where you are.
- **Write a verse**: a verse of about four to six lines.
- **Write a chorus**: a short chorus of about two to four lines.
- **Ideas**: suggestions for what to write here. Nothing is written yet.

The same options are in the `/` menu, in its **Write ✨** group: **Continue writing**, **Write a verse here**, **Write a chorus here** and **Ideas**. To use them, type `/` on an empty line.

Press Esc to close the menu. If you meant to type a space, just keep typing on a line that already has words: the menu only opens on an empty one.

## Step by step

1. Press Enter at the end of a line to make a new, empty line.
2. Press Space. Use the arrow keys or the mouse to pick an option, or type in **Describe what to write…**.
3. The new lines appear at the cursor as a suggestion, marked so you can tell them from your own.
4. Choose **✓ Accept** to keep them, **✗ Discard** (or Esc) to drop them, or **↻ Try again** for another go.

If the answer has a blank line in it, for example a verse and then a chorus, it becomes separate sections when you accept it. **Accept** is one step you can undo with ⌘ Z (Ctrl+Z on Windows and Linux). The suggestion works the same way as in [Selection tools](https://innerhook.com/docs/selection-tools/).

## Ideas

**Ideas** brainstorms instead of writing. After "Finding ideas…" you get a short list called "Ideas for this place". Each idea has a title and a sentence about it, for example:

- **The unpaid parking ticket**: She's still getting his mail, and one letter brings it all back.
- **Switch to the morning after**: Leave the argument and open on the quiet kitchen.

Click an idea and the Space menu opens again, with "Write lines about: …" and the idea filled in. Press Enter to write lines from it, or change the words first. Esc, a click elsewhere, scrolling or typing closes the list.

## The whole song as context

Each option sends the AI:

- the whole song, with its section labels
- a mark showing where the cursor is
- the song brief (title, genre, mood, words, tempo and key)
- the song's [artist profile](https://innerhook.com/docs/artist-profiles/), if it has one

So **Continue writing** after a second verse knows what the first verse said, and **Write a chorus** knows the song's subject.

These tools use AI (Anthropic's Claude). Every option's tooltip says so, for example "Writes a verse here with AI (Claude)". Your lyrics are never used to train AI models. See the [privacy policy](https://innerhook.com/privacy/).

## Tips

- Fill in the song brief first. Even a one-line idea and a mood make the results much more your own.
- Use **Ideas** when you're stuck on *what* to say, and the writing options when you know what to say but not how.
- **Continue writing** is small on purpose: a line or two at a time keeps you in charge of where the song goes.

## Credits

> **Limits**
>
> - **Continue writing**, **Write a verse**, **Write a chorus** and **Describe what to write…** cost **1 credit** each.
> - **Ideas** costs **2 credits**. Writing from a picked idea is a new request and costs 1 credit.
> - **Try again** is a new request and costs the same again. A request that fails gives its credits back.
> - The Space menu isn't there if you only view or comment on a shared song.

See [Plans & credits](https://innerhook.com/docs/plans-and-credits/) for how many credits each plan gets.