Set Yourself a Goal: 50,000 Words! Goals allows you to set word or character limits to sheets and groups. During NaNoWriMo, you could make use of this feature to track your progress towards a fantastic 50,000 words goal. …
Ulysses Makes Pasting Smarter Did you ever paste some text and didn’t get the expected result? Then you should know about Smart Paste, available with the shortcut shift-cmd-v (⇧⌘V). For example, Smart Paste can help when …
Syncing Ulysses and Daedalus via Dropbox If you want to write on the go, you can do so with the iOS app Daedalus Touch. Sync with Ulysses to be able to edit these texts on your Mac. By default, …
Helping You to Keep Track of Things: Filters We’ve recently written a post about effectively using keywords. However, there is one extra trick that we’d like you to be aware of and thats the use of filters. Filters are …
Categorize Your Sheets Using Keywords When you’re writing a book with many characters or places it’s convenient to be able to filter all scenes starring the same character or place. Or maybe you’re a blogger …
Make Yourself Comfortable – A Guide on Customizing Your Writing Environment in Ulysses, Part 2 This is the second part of our 10-step-guide to make Ulysses’ editor your writing home. In case you missed steps 1 to 4: this way please. Step 5: Adapt Editor Settings Preferences allow …
Adjust Ulysses' Markup to Your Needs Markdown is great for focused, productive writing. But it might happen that it gets in the way of your specific writing task. In Ulysses, there is a simple solution to this problem: Just …
Make Yourself Comfortable – A Guide on Customizing Your Writing Environment in Ulysses, Part 1 You are writing a lot, maybe several hours per day? Then you might want to add a personal touch to your text editor. Ulysses offers several options to do so. It is a …
Improve Navigation in Sheets using Bookmarks Today’s tip is about a tiny feature that still can be of great help for a writer’s workflow: bookmarks. The idea of bookmarks is as simple as obvious: remember a certain …
Customize Your Sheet List The sheet list – the middle pane in Ulysses’ interface – offers a handy preview of all sheets in a group or filter. This allows you to find sheets for editing, previewing or exporting. A …
Turn Back Time With Ulysses' Version History Do you know this? You delete a sentence in your text, and a couple of days later you change your mind and would like to turn back time to restore it? Probably most …
How to Get Your Writing Out There and Make It Look Good, Part Three: Ulysses Style Exchange This is the final post of our series on how to use Ulysses for exporting and styling your writings. We illuminated the power of the app’s export feature, and tweaked a Ulysses …
Using Tables With Ulysses and Marked We’ve added native support for tables in Ulysses with version 27. Just type (tbl) to add a new table. One important benefit of plain text editing is that you’re never locked …
Ulysses Tips: Shortcuts Depending on what keyboard you’re using it can sometimes be cumbersome to insert markup tags. In some cases the ` is in a hard to reach place or the # requires you to press …
How to Get Your Writing Out There and Make It Look Good – Part One: Introducing Quick Export div.example-box { display: table; margin: 0px; } img.example-left-image { display: table-cell; margin-right: 1.5em !important; max-width: 280px; } img.example-right-image { display: table-cell; margin-left: 1.5em !important; max-width: 280px; } div.example-text { display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; max-width: …
