Very well done!

March 21/2015

I think the icon looks great. Very clever design, too.

March 14/2015

Fantastic update! Still as simple and clean as ever, but even more streamlined. The additon of a pane-toggle button, for instance, is a very welcome feature. It just makes sense.

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Pull out too many features from Ulysses 2, and you run the risk of the kind of over-simplificaiton that results in a full-screen text editor clone. I dont need to name them; some of them are well known by now, and some of them are very good at what they do (or rather, at fulfilling their stated purpose.) Shove in too many features, and you run the risk of wandering into word-processing territory; a bunch of cruft with a full-screen mode. We dont need *more* preferences to futz with and adjustments to tweak. We need to retain the basics, but with some additional flexibility about how we manage what we create. Ulysses 3 is basically Ulysses 2 with the cruft removed, and with the addition of better file-management, cloud syncing, the ability to point and save to an external source (such as files living in cloud services outside of iCloud), and a UI overhaul. Yet its also a complete re-imagining of the text editor, which makes Ulysses 3 feel quite different from Ulysses 2 (and most of what the competition offers, for that matter.)

The result of all this is a more streamlined, a more intuitive, and a more attractive app that immerses you in your writing without leaving you wishing for more or less when you leave full-screen mode. And *that* is really the ideal (or should be) to which all modern text editors aspire.

UPDATE:

@ blum123456,

You might yet grow to love Ulysses. It’s a Markdown-based text editor, but one of *the* most robust of its kind. Markdown gives the user ultimate flexibility in terms of formatting and editing, but without a lot of the clutter found in standard word processors. Instead of formatting while you write, you *define* your desired formatting on-the-fly. Read the Ulysses 3 introduction sheets in the app - everything will bemade clear. The WYSIWYG you’re used to can still be found when you *preview* your work, though you only “see what you get” in the preview. I’d urge you to make yourself at home with Markdown. It’s not only useful but also a lot of fun. If you *really* want a Word substitute, I’d advise you to give Mellel a look. It far outclasses Word, in my view.

LTD602 about Ulysses – The Ultimate Writing App, v2.0