Giving it Another Try

Test post, I’m giving Ulysses another go. Thank you, @Gaby, I’ll blame you for this one.

@maique Just used Ulysses to post my newsletter to micro.blog. Worked well! Good luck.

@maique hopefully this will my last blame of the year 😂

@leeschneider I enjoyed the three months trial a while back, let’s see if it sticks 😊

@Gaby You have a whole day ahead of you… 🤣

@maique Ulysses is a fantastically capable app, and well worth the subscription cost IMO. Wait till you edit your first post directly within it, you won’t want to use anything else…

@pimoore @maique i forgot about that feature, I never use it because all my post are perfectly imperfect 😅

@maique I guess I have told you this earlier too, but I love Ulysses. It's the only way I post to Micro.blog! 👍🏽

@maique Haha! I’ve just gone back to giving iA Writer a whirl after a long spell with Ulysses. I’ll probably run them both side by side for a while. I like having access to plain text files and the pure markdown, though I still don’t know which will win the day?! 🤔

@crossingthethreshold The way it handles Markdown is the one thing that I find hard to swallow. Not a deal breaker, but would rather have it working another way.

@amit You have 😊 If it works great for you, handling your lovely posts, I should be ok 😊

@pimoore @Gaby I didn’t even think about that one! Thank you for reminding me, that will be useful for sure. Revision mode as well!

@pimoore how far back is it possible to edit? I’ve only edited one post and that was within 24 hours of posting.

@crossingthethreshold That’s a good question, though I’d suspect there’s no limitation.

@maique @crossingthethreshold I go back and forth about its Markdown quirks, but it’s not a dealbreaker for me by any means. Truthfully the only times I find it frustrating is entering shortcodes, which require enclosing the block in ~ to force raw formatting, and sometimes when I’m linking and it doesn’t create it properly. Those are small things in comparison to what it provides me in return, but obviously YMMV. The one thing I might do is switch the Markdown format for my blog posts to plain as opposed to MarkdownXL, and see if that fixes the quirks.

@pimoore @maique @crossingthethreshold I actually prefer the way Ulysses handles the markdown, it's clean and distraction-free, I dont like seeing all the links and stuff like in regular markdown

@Gaby @maique @crossingthethreshold I actually like that for the most part as well, it’s more those odd times I want to see the code that it becomes an issue. It’s mostly the shortcode input for me, but I still love the app regardless. I’ve consolidated so much into it, and it’s gloriously freeing to have so much in one spot.