Despite being all in on Ulysses for writing, I brought iA Writer’s custom fonts with me. Writing prose in anything but iA Writer Duo or Triplicate Poly, depending on mood, seems weird and fundamentally incorrect now.
Despite being all in on Ulysses for writing, I brought iA Writer’s custom fonts with me. Writing prose in anything but iA Writer Duo or Triplicate Poly, depending on mood, seems weird and fundamentally incorrect now.
@chipotle iA Writer is my go-to app. Another strangely handy app is Highland. It's a screenwriting app, but its organizational tools fit my own workflow very well. And fonts!
@rogerscrafford I have used Highland for screenwriting, actually, but haven't used it for anything else yet. :)
@chipotle @rogerscrafford I don’t want to be tied to Ulysses and its subscription, but unfortunately I’m worried it’s still the best iPad app for novel-length writing. Scrivener on iPad is hugely lacking, and Pages — while great — still seems cumbersome to me. Of all the things that have me considering a jump back to Mac, it’s Scrivener.
@pimoore I’m going back to Ulysses from Scrivener. I adore Scrivener, but it’s just so bloody ugly and, like you say, awful on the iPad. I have apps that play nicely with Ulysses, like MindNode and Aeon Timeline and I’m going to see how I get on with those.
@BenSouthwood Didn’t know about Mindnode and Aeon working with Ulysses, are you doing that on the iPad or the Mac? I’d be interested in reading your workflow for these.
@pimoore I haven’t fully mastered it. Aeon only syncs via the Mac and not IPad, but MindNode allows export as a ‘Outline’ which can then be broken up in Ulysses. My plan is to use MindNode where possible for planning, Aeon is complicated but I’m starting to grasp the basics. It’s like a Scrivener extension for Ulysses with corkboard views and suchlike.
@pimoore @rogerscrafford I’m a setapp subscriber, so I get Ulysses as part of the deal and I’ve moved out of scrivener because the syncing is terrible. Ulysses has been fantastic - and @mattgemmell wrote some great blog posts on how to export your finished manuscript from it.
@hcmarks @BenSouthwood @pimoore @rogerscrafford The syncing is what got me, too. The iPad was my only real mobile workstation for a couple years and Scrivener was not cutting it. I don't think I'd go back at this point, though.
@chipotle I’m an absolute idiot for jumping between apps, I completed NaNo in Scrivener but after a lot of thought decided to use Ulysses for everything. I subscribe to iCloud and the syncing is effortless and I wasn’t happy shelling out for Dropbox too, particularly as it gave me a heart attack every time I had to use it. 2023 = Ulysses for everything.
@BenSouthwood @hcmarks @mattgemmell Agreed, Matt’s writing is fantastic, and I should have another reread of his Ulysses workflows.