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martinfeld
martinfeld

@matpacker Have you tried Ulysses? I love it.

matpacker
matpacker

@martinfeld not for anything other than just text/writing. How does it handle receiving a webpage shared to it from Safari, both iOS and MacOS? Does it import the images on the post as well? Will it work from the Reader view in Safari?

matpacker
matpacker

@cm I use and love Drafts, and it's handy for all the text based stuff, I'm more looking for something that will grab all the images on a page as well...that's what I loved about the Evernote Clipper.

martinfeld
martinfeld

@matpacker Having also seen your comment about using the Evernote Web Clipper, to my knowledge Ulysses doesn't include such functionality. I know what you mean though and I generally use the screenshot tools on iOS and macOS, mark up as necessary and then hit the 'share’ button to send it straight to a sheet in Ulysses. I find that works quite well.

matpacker
matpacker

@martinfeld whilst Ulysses doesn't have a "clipper" per se, I've been using PopClip to capture and share things to Notes and other apps, and PopClip also has plugins written for Ulysses...so I may have to investigate it a little further.

martinfeld
martinfeld

@matpacker Oh well that's good then! Ulysses has the typical tagging and organisational features, however it's the support for easy Web-publishing and the new in-app document split view on iPad that I really enjoy. Typewriter mode is also fantastic and I love to set it to highlight the specific paragraph that I'm working on.

canion
canion

@matpacker Try NoteBooks by Alfons Schmidt. That might work for you - but be aware it needs Dropbox for sync.

gebloom
gebloom

@matpacker A second vote for Drafts. Ulysses is useful if you’re writing long-form, and you’re taking notes for a your current essay. Also note that Ulysses uses a proprietory Markdown. It’s good in that it doesn’t glock up your document with footnote or link text, but hides them like a word processor, but less good in that it doesn’t mix as well (especially for round trips) with MultiMarkdown apps. With Drafts, you can choose Github Markdown or MultiMarkdown.

matpacker
matpacker

@gebloom I’m a big fan of Drafts and use it many times a day, only problem is that I want to also save images, PDF’s, audio, and video, to this “CommonPlace” but unfortunately, Drafts can’t handle the other formats.

matpacker
matpacker

@canion I briefly tried Notebooks before, I think it was the Dropbox sync that bugged me...but I’m going to give it another go as it ticks a lot of boxes otherwise.

gebloom
gebloom

@matpackerI I think if anyone will know, it’s Viticci at Macstories.net