My favorite place to write.

Ulysses provides that sense of delight that is the main reason a lot of us stick with the Mac environment. It doesn’t do everything—sometimes I need to jump into TextMate for heavy lifting (I know the cool kids have moved to Sublime text but I just can’t move on) or use Pandoc or Marked for some post processing—but Ulysses is my favorite place to hang out and write. Organizing my writing feels really smooth and easy, I love taking notes inline that disappear on export, and not having to worry about formatting is great. It’s just the right combination of powerful and simple for my needs. I think that Ulysses competes with something like Scrivener. It is a very different take on an app that is meant to accomplish many of the same purposes. Scrivener has more features, but I find that most of the extra stuff just adds friction. They’re both great apps and they both have trial copies on their websites, so I would try them both out if you’re in the market for something that lets you write and organize text, and that is especially good for large projects like writing a novel.

I’m always looking forward to feature updates in the future that provide things like better tables support, but the app as it currently exists is my favorite writing environment.

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