Ulysses

Ulysses is a breath of fresh air. It offers a streamlined, distraction-free writing pipeline that is somehow both simple and feature-packed. It does everything in its power to help you write effectively. If you’re looking for a great semantic editor, your search is done (unless you’d prefer/need LaTeX over a flavor of Markdown).

The price point is a sore spot — the OS X package costs $50 and the iOS version will set you back $25, if you need it. Added up it’s more than Sublime Text + Coda, both of which offer Markdown syntax modes, and it’s _much_ more than OS X / iOS Notes. But after exploring the workflow, export options, and user-focused design on offer in Ulysses, I believe the purchase is worth it for the focused writer.

Ulysses gets out of the way when you want it to but is easily called back when you need something. It’s very good at maintaining the separation of concerns between content and presentation, and I never realized how sick I was of messing around with formatting options until now. Just relax, do some great writing, and worry about all that stuff later. Or don’t, because Ulysses will take care of that for you, too.

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