“The moment when I fell on my knees was the very moment that changed my life.” Janice Jakait made the headlines in 2012, because she was the first German woman to cross the Atlantic ocean in a row boat. After coming back she wrote a book about her experiences: …
Why Plain Text Will Boost Your Productivity as a Writer Plain text writing may sound like a complicated concept to someone who grew up with text processors. But it is what writers did before text processors even existed: sit down in front of …
6 Tips to Organize Your Text Library with Ulysses We’ve designed Ulysses to be the home of all your texts, no matter if they’re notes to self, white papers for your business, or blog posts. If you’re a busy …
Some Soulmen at WWDC If you’re developing apps for Mac and iOS, Apple’s World Wide Developers Conference, held in San Francisco from June 8-12, is the highlight of the year. I sat down with Max, …
Individual Group Icons Did you know that Ulysses allows to customize your group icons? You can use them as visual labels for a better orientation in your text library. This option is available on both Mac …
How to Customize Your Writing Environment in Ulysses for iPad Are you a first-line-indenter? Would you choose an unpretentious font like Menlo, or something fancier? Do you prefer writing on a bright white background over light grey or midnight black? Neither one of …
Rich Text Beauty Queen A couple of weeks ago we asked you to join our small competition and share a Rich Text style [https://stories-staging.ulysses.app/blog/2015/04/share-a-style-and-win-ulysses-for-ipad/] on the Ulysses Style exchange. Thanks …
Check for Updates: New Versions Available Now! Thanks for all the fantastic feedback you provided for Ulysses 2.0! It was essential for detecting a whole bunch of minor bugs and improvement opportunities. The new Ulysses versions for Mac and …
Handling References with Ulysses for Mac When writing a thesis or scientific paper, authors often need to keep track of references to cite other works. While it might be fine to handle those manually at first, things can get …
Starring Today: Your Most Precious Writings What is new in the latest version of Ulysses for Mac? With a short series of blog posts, we’ll bring you up to date. After posts about the revamped Quick Export panel …
Can Background Chatter Help You Focus? – Coffitivity There are dozens of little tools aimed at authors and writers, promising to help them focus or even write better texts. How are they supposed to work, and can writers actually benefit? Rebekka …
Open Files: A Simpler Way to Edit Text Files With Ulysses What is new in the latest version of Ulysses for Mac? With a short series of blog posts, we’ll bring you up to date. A couple of days ago we glanced at …
Quick Export 2.0 – 5 Things You Should Know What is new in the latest version of Ulysses for Mac? With a short series of blog posts, we’ll bring you up to date. Our start: the new Quick Export panel and …
Share a Style and Win Ulysses for iPad Whenever you want to dress up your Ulysses writings for their readers, you rely on styles. On the Style Exchange [styles.ulyssesapp.com] you can find a wide choice of user-created styles for …
PDF Styles for Fiction Writers Be it murder mysteries, love stories or science fiction – if you are writing fiction, someday you’ll probably want to hand your text manuscript over to an editor. Even before that you may …
Writing a Novel With Ulysses, Reloaded Yes, we’re a little proud that bestselling author David Hewson is a loyal user of Ulysses – and we’re still very pleased that he wrote a book about it. “Writing a Novel …
“I Had to Learn to Really Love Writing” Niko Formanek quit his job as a PR executive to become a stand-up comedian. Joking about his family life is now what he does for a living. In our interview he talks about …
The Launch – Feedback Roundup The time before and after the release of a new application is most exciting in a developer’s professional life. First, there is the pressure to accomplish everything in time. And then, the …
