Hope The Soulmen Keep Going

update #3: Yippee….Ulysses is now available on the iPhone. I can work on a project on whatever device now. This is fabulous, since I am rarely at home and am always tapping away on the iphone or the iPad in the car or in a meeting, and wherever else. Its iCloud, which now seems to work in a flawless manner, is of great need for me. I use Ulysses for first drafts, for working things out, and for mapping and laying out chapters of books and seeing how they flow before shipping them off to storyist or ibooks author. While not a great fan of markdown, I can live with it. If Ulysses had the same formatting options as, say Storyist or Scrivener, this would be my only writing program for long projects. I have two of them going on Ulysses now.

Anyway, thanks for that update on the iphone. It’s real nice and great to be able to tap away on that while in the woods or on the water. Great fun:)

Update #2: This Ulysses program started off fabulous. I was happy when it came out. I use Ulysses quite a bit and to have the same program across all op systems was divine. Then, somehow the new Ulysses lost everything I had on it on the new ipad/desktop/laptop version. It is all a blank now. I have had to return to the old form of dadealus/ulysses. Despite it not no longer syncing, it now seems to sync — at least on my computers. I do not know what it is. Customer support has been right there; they cannot figure it out either. I am back to the old way. I guess it is a take your chances kind of program.

Update: Dadealus Touch and Ulysseus no longer sync in Mac’s Yosemite operating system.

I do not have much experience with this upgrade, so it is difficult to criticize or praise it. I use Ulysseus as a drafting program, importing the final version to Pages before sending the piece off. I also use Daedelus Touch more than the Ulysseus program since I am never able to be at the desktop long enough to get much done on it. These upgraded features are, sadly, lacking in Daedalus. I wish the soulmen would update Daedalus to match Ulysseus. It is probably going to remain as a wish, though:(

This said, both programs are a godsend for the mobile writer. The icloud works flawlessly; the exporting to other programs, even scrivener, is great. The sheets idea is nice. Though not a general fan of Markdown, Ulysseus makes it easy to understand anyway so I do not worry about it.

I wish that the soul men would advance this program and its ipad sibling, Daedalus, to include supports for table of contents for longer projects, bibliographies, glosseries, and so on. Then it would be the only writing program I would ever use. I hope they keep going. They’ve got a gem now, which could only be better if they want it to be.

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