Deceptively great

I used to write with Scrivener, also Storyist, not to mention various word processsors. I tried Ulysses because I wanted a seamless editing experience involving several Macs and my iPad, fully intending to go back to Scrivener once they got their iPad version going.

To my surprise, I now prefer Ulysses to everything else. I never have to worry about having my work open on several machines. It stays seamlessly synced all the time and I just pick up whatever machine closest (even my iPhone now) and the blinking cursor is waiting where I left it on the last machine I worked on. Marvelous. Better syncing than anyone else because its embedded right into iCloud. Not file based but work based.

I also thought I needed all the complexity and features of Scriverner, but there is something about Ulysses that just makes it so easy to pick up and work with, even if I’ve only got five minutes of free time to scribble down some ideas. Almost like it draws the words out of me. Simplicity seems to be its own reward, at least for me.

So despite completing my original quest, and getting Scrivener on my iPad, I find I’m much more creative in Ulysses. I’ve learned how to organize my work in it and it simply works for writing novels. Not the result I expected, but I’m a very happy camper who is writing more words now than ever before. Wonderful tool that is always there but never gets in the way.

Johnamar about Ulysses – The Ultimate Writing App, v2.6