Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t. I tried extending pauses, insertion by pasting instead of by typing, but couldn’t fix the issue completely.
More often that not, at the point of selecting the text to be made into a link, that text would be deleted. Keyboard Maestro typed some text, selected that text, simulated CMD+K, then pasted links. I created a macro that added a little bio and links to the end of each blog post. In Ulysses, files can be moved between Groups, and apparently it’s “plain text”, but where’s the file? Writer stores my files in an iCloud folder I have no idea where Ulysses keeps them… No macro necessaryĪttempts to automate Ulysses with Keyboard Maestro were problematic. With iA Writer, that’s exactly what I get. I just want a file – a file that I can see and move and manipulate if I want to. I don’t need that file to be buried somewhere within the operating system as part of a database. Scrolling through a long list makes me feel like I’ve done a lot of work.Ī standalone report or post such as this is a small writing project comprising a single file. The app works with plain text, but, like Drafts, files are stored in a database. Then there’s the way Ulysses handles files. Screenshot courtesy of the author Where’s my file? I could never get my head around those four squares or the node icon… And I could never remember what a couple of the icons in that pane were for, meaning I had to click and explore. Using these tools also requires either the mouse or a slightly awkward hotkey combination of CTRL+CMD+ as far as I can see, there isn’t a way to change this combination. There’s a lot going on, and I didn’t find this pane intuitive. This contains a lot of important features, such as keywords, attachments, goals and notes. But after a while, I found that some aspects of this program just didn’t gel with me.
When I first started using it, I was bowled over with Ulysses.
Scrivener app update#
Writers can even update published posts from within the app. It’s undeniably convenient, with “all your texts in one place”, and the ability to publish direct to blogging platforms, complete with images and tags. It offers all the tools a lot of writers will ever need in a very pretty package. The first thing to say is that Ulysses is excellent. Ulysses is a great application, but having used it for several months I’ve decided to return to iA Writer and Scrivener. All great, often compared, very different – and I’ve made my choice Icons courtesy of and YMMV and all that jazz
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