Decided to check out Ulysses, because it’s a part of SetApp and I haven’t used it in years.

Still hate it.

@hjertnes i suppose the tools we love are the ones that work for us. Ulysses has been huge for me with it’s direct connection to wordpress and micro.blog i write more than ever, post more than ever. Curious? What tool(s) work well for you?

@hjertnes You hate everything that is good – Sir! Respectfully, Sir! 😂

@Gaby 🤣

@pimoore I can’t stand how it hides the markdown and don’t let me copy it out as it pasted it in with cmd c

@mbkriegh currently I use the archive on macOS and 1Writer on iOS + drafts + OmniOutliner

@Gaby hahahahha 😂 fake plain text piss me off @furstenberg

@Gaby that part isn’t my big issue with it, I hate that it doesn’t copy the markdown by default

@hjertnes ah! I see what you’re saying, yeah, I have had situations in the past where i start something in Drafts then try to copy and paste it to Ulysses and everythign goes to fucks

@pimoore only app i know about that syncs a dropbox folder like on the old days

@pimoore if you know of others that kind of work like Notesy, Editorial etc let me know. Until I buy me an iPad most of the writing hapens on macOS anyways.

@hjertnes In its mild defense, you can copy as Markdown with Opt-Cmd-C. It’s not that much more onerous. :) While I moved to iA Writer from Ulysses for a while in part for the “I want pure Markdown as normal files” stance, Ulysses won me back due to what feels like just better features for long-form writers (sidebar outline of headings, sheets designated as notes, inline comments and annotations, etc.).

@chipotle Yeah, but I expect that if I can paste in markdown, I can also get it out with the default keyboard shortcut

@pimoore @hjertnes iA Writer is definitely worth checking out. It’s opinionated to the point of being cantankerous, but it does some neat things.

@hjertnes 💯

@pimoore iA doesn’t have a usable search :/

@hjertnes i recently started using Drafts and love it! It is an excellent micro poem composition tool… i checked out the other tools you mentioned and i think OmniOutliner is most likely to be useful in my work flow. Thanks for sharing!

@hjertnes @chipotle et al: I’ve been working over the years with an ever-growing set of plain text note files using this series of apps:
Simplenote / Notational Velocity / nvAlt / the Archive
I’m happy with all of them, but now I’m back to Simplenote for, well, notes.
I have experimented with Obsidian for writing, but probably won’t stay with it. My current ‘draft zero’ is being written using Highland, for its plain text file format and navigator panel.

@rogerscrafford I liked Highland for writing a screenplay when I attempted to do that, but could never quite get into it for other plain text.