Our built-in fact-checker ensures that your content is not only engaging but also accurate and relevant to your target audience. On the one hand, those may be two of the most popular blogging platforms online today, but, on the other, I suspect the kind of user who appreciates a focused text editor like Ulysses is the kind of blogger who would prefer a more advanced blogging solution like Substack, Wordpress or Ghost.While ChatGPT is an impressive AI chatbot that excels in generating conversational dialogue and short-form content, LongShot AI specializes in creating authentic, verifiable, and SEO-friendly long-form content. I suppose I should also mention that there’s not a direct integration with Squarespace or Wix blogs either. Substack is gaining popularity at a rapid clip and I suspect there are many Substack writers who would be interested in using Ulysses (perhaps writers reading this very post). Hopefully this is something Ulysses can bring to Substack as soon as it’s technically feasible. While most of my formatting remains intact, I have encountered at least one incompatibility: my H3 headings don’t transfer from Ulysses to Substack.įurther, if I want to make a change to a published Substack post, I have to make the edit in both Ulysses and Substack so that both documents stay current.

Still, it’s the one wall that I hit on a routine basis.Ĭurrently, when I want to publish to Substack I have to copy and paste my text into the web-based Substack editor. In fairness though, I’m not sure if Substack offers an API to make this possible.

If I have one quibble with Ulysses it’s that it doesn’t support direct publishing to Substack. Using Ulysses, I can slide an article into the main editor panel, and with one click (or tap on iPad OS), hide the library panels leaving me with nothing but my words on a screen. I am typically working on a few articles for Medium Focus at any one time. I currently have groups for Medium Focus, Personal Notes, Client Proposals and Introductory Emails. And how you organize your writing becomes as much a part of the writing process as the writing itself.ĭocs in the library are sorted into groups (and sub groups if you so choose). The advantage here is that you can slide docs in and out of the editor with ease. The two left columns are collapsable, and are used for document organization, what Ulysses calls your library. The main column is a large blank space for writing. The main application window is made up of three columns. In Ulysses, documents all live inside the app itself. Structurally, a file is stored somewhere on your computer, and you must find, select and open that file before editing it in Word. On the PC.I have no idea what this is called on a PC. But the other is the system application for storing, saving and managing files. One is the actual program called Word, in which you write and edit text.

When using Word, you are actually using two different applications. Case in point: what you’re reading now has been written entirely in Ulysses. For my purposes, which is namely to write short to medium length articles for online publication, Ulysses just fits me like a glove.

At one point I tried them all, but I keep coming back to Ulysses. While Word was designed to serve every conceivable market (students, researchers, lawyers, etc.), text editors are crafted for just one audience: writers.īBEdit, iA Writer, Ulysses, and Scrivener are perhaps the most well known. This is to say that if you want to format your text in all the ways big and small, Word has your back.īut what if you just want to write text? And to focus your mind’s eye exclusively on that text? Enter the text editor: applications for and by lovers of the written word. Sometimes there are menus within the menus. Clicking on the arrow displays even more icons. To the right of the toolbar there’s an arrow. There’s a toolbar that sits atop the screen, and within that toolbar are icons, many icons in fact, for performing actions. Nevertheless, for almost all of us, Word has been the application we have reliably opened for decades now whenever we wanted to commit words and paragraphs to a text document.Īnd Word is a Big Powerful Application. If you’re a touch older, you may also recall using Letter Perfect or its older sibling, Word Perfect. Technically, if you’re as old as me, 40, you may have some vague recollection of Microsoft Works. If you grew up writing any kind of text on a computer, Microsoft’s Word has probably been your go to for as long as you can remember.

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