![]() In Scrivener’s case, the targeted cloud is Dropbox for Ulysses (as for iA Writer), it’s iCloud. So what exactly escalated this to an out-and-out decision to leave Ulysses at all, much less for iA Writer?Ĭoincidentally enough, it was one of the chief reasons I’d chosen Ulysses over Scrivener the previous year: an uneasiness over the incumbent app’s ability to sync files to The Cloud from among my Apple devices. And, with my growing adherence to the wisdom of keeping one’s writing in plain-text formats, I also enjoyed the resulting peace of mind that came from knowing I had a backup plan for the WIP if, for some reason I couldn’t yet imagine, I decided against continuing to be a Ulysses user. As time passed, I figured out ways to recreate (or, at least, simulate) certain Ulysses features that iA Writer lacked 2. I then began working on the WIP in both apps across my Apple devices, using whichever one caught my fancy that particular day. Incidentally, as part of my getting to know iA Writer better, I even exported copies of my WIP from Ulysses to iA Writer’s default storage location, the iA Writer iCloud Drive folder. So it would be Ulysses for long-form writing and iA Writer for the posts here. Each of these other apps had strong merits but, sure enough, I chose iA Writer as the best fit. Still, I gave fair shots to not only Typora and MultiMarkdown Composer but also Visual Studio Code, the code editor I already was using for HTML and CSS work on the site. Ulysses’s Quick Export feature: the only way you can derive a true, standalone, visible Markdown file from one of its native, proprietary-format files.īecause I’d read many good things about iA Writer’s latest Mac version (5.x), it had the lead from the beginning. Thus, I was trying writing apps that saved natively to Markdown without needing to export. While I still enjoyed writing this site’s posts in Ulysses, I’d wearied of the write-export-write-export dance it required because the native Ulysses file format is proprietary, not the standalone Markdown (.md) needed by my static site generator of choice, Hugo. I’ve mentioned from time to time over the last few months that I was experimenting with other Markdown editors. The blog slogĪt the beginning, I wished only to make blogging a little less tedious. ![]() Pull up a chair, metaphorical or otherwise, and I’ll use my new daily writing driver, iA Writer, to tell you all about it. I wrote this along the way so that, when the time came and I actually pulled the plug, I’d have all my story-telling ducks in a row for you. In fact, I’ve been working on this post for several weeks now, as it became clear that this was the direction in which I was heading. I particularly admired how it sync’ed my content, via iCloud, so swiftly and automatically among my Apple devices.Īlthough I became curious about other writing apps, even if only for creating content for this site, I steadfastly insisted that they would be, at best, only add-ons they couldn’t begin to replace Ulysses, especially for long-form writing. Ulysses had just the right mix of features for my creative writing, neither so many that I’d feel overwhelmed nor so few that I’d feel restricted. Ulysses was a delight to use on the Mac and my iOS devices. I wrote for nearly a year within Ulysses, both for this site and in my swear-I’m-gonna-finish-it-while-I-still-remember-how-to-form-sentences work in progress (WIP). (Quite understandably, they won’t be linking to this one.) The people at Ulysses even linked to it from their monthly e-newsletter, obviously the reason for its being so visited. I also cancelled my annual subscription to it, which was due to expire in five weeks.Ī few months ago, I couldn’t have imagined writing those sentences at all, much less posting them here.Īfter all, one of my most-viewed posts was my explanation of why I had settled on Ulysses as the daily driver for my writing. So I went back and renewed the Ulysses sub after all. Note, : I’ve learned some additional information since the original post () which doesn’t truly exonerate Ulysses regarding the sync issues described herein but does raise serious questions about just where the fault really lies.
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