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.
