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ulyssesapp.com is the company blog at ulyssesapp.com, writing about writing and productivity. Since 2013, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Ulysses III - Mac Text Editor release”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
20mentions?
19HN people?
2013–2018first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (17) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mention Ulysses, a Markdown writing app for Mac and iOS, as a tool for long-form writing, organising text and notes, and plain-text workflows. The comments are about the app rather than the site's text.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 17 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Ulysses III - Mac Text Editor release6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2013-03-12
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-10-31
- Ulysses Switches to Subscription3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-08-10
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-04-29
What Hacker News says?
> some way cross-apply the license purchase price to a subscription They did do this. From the footnote to to their original announcement[1] Recent purchases of the Mac app will unlock up to 12 months of free use, and purchases of the iOS app will unlock up to 6 months of free use. Your individual free-use duration is calculated from your actual purchase date, respectively, and if you bought Ulysses on both platform…
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on “Subscription Hell”Submitted Ulysses Switches to Subscription as a story · 6 points
HN discussion149 comments and no mention of http://www.ulyssesapp.com/ yet. Although the recent change to a subscription pricing model was off-putting at first, it is reassuring in some ways because it underlines the developer's longterm commitment. That said, I've recently been using Notion for EVERYTHING at work, and now considering if I could do likewise for my personal notes/essays. PS. It's funny how the intense competition…
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on “Ask HN: Favorite note-taking software?”Submitted Ulysses Switches to Subscription as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPlaintext / basic Markdown with an "organizer" like Ulysses [0] or Quiver [1] can serve just about all needs. [0] https://www.ulyssesapp.com [1] http://happenapps.com/#quiver
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on “The future of education is plain text”Submitted Ulysses III - Mac Text Editor release as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's totally based on the software you use on it. Some examples of great creative software I enjoy: Procreate http://procreate.si/ PINNACLE STUDIO PRO http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/us/Products/studio/ipa... Continuous http://continuous.codes/ Coda https://panic.com/coda-ios/ Adobe Sketchbook Pro https://www.sketchbook.com/?locale=en iMovie Swift Playgrounds (has full access to iOS libs) http://www.apple.com/…
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on “Swift Playgrounds – Learn to code on your iPad”I dig Ulysses for the Mac[0]. Its distraction-free mode is very nice, but the organizational tools are there once you need to start stringing together larger pieces of text. I do wish someone would make a non-OSX version that was as nice. [0] https://ulyssesapp.com/
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on “The Benjamin Franklin Method: How to Be a Better Writer”There are more modern word processors that implement many of these features, for example Scrivener[1] and Ulysses[2]. Clipboard managers also help quite a bit, I can't do anything without one these days (but I also have a lot of commonly-used commands and blocks of code stored as snippets in mine, so it isn't just for juggling). 1: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/ 2: http://ulyssesapp.com/
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on “What ever happened to Wordstar?”The interface seems inspired by iA Writer [1] and Ulysses [2]. [1]: http://www.iawriter.com/ [2]: http://www.ulyssesapp.com/
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on “Write Better with Draft”Hi, this is Jesse. I am original designer/creator of FoldingText. Mutahhir has since taken the project over while I continue to work on TaskPaper and WriteRoom. I see a number of FoldingText history questions. I'll try to answer all of those here. The idea of FoldingText evolved from: 1. Out of college I got to work on the Jazz ZUI (Zooming User Interface) toolkit and then build it's successor Piccolo. http://www.cs…
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on “FoldingText – Plain text productivity for Mac users”Did you look at Ulysses III? I use it and I find it to be very good. http://www.ulyssesapp.com/
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on “Show HN: LightPaper for Mac – Free Markdown editor”I use Markdown notepads like Quiver [1] and Ulysses [2] to get a "pretty view" on my existing plaintext hoard and directory structure. This lets my data remain portable and still gives me (almost) all the niceties of proprietary formats/editors. [1]: http://happenapps.com/#quiver [2]: http://ulyssesapp.com/mac/
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on “The Sad State of Personal Knowledgebases”For lightweight stuff, there's vanilla Markdown, but you have no control over formatting. For more serious work using markdown, you can try out Ulysses[0] or Scribus[1]. And, if you feel like spending an obscene amount of money, on the order of $10k, there's Arbortext APP[2]. (I don't know why this even exists?) [0]: https://ulyssesapp.com/ [1]: https://www.scribus.net/ [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbortext_A…
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on “Towards LaTeX in the Browser”I use https://www.notebooksapp.com/ . It works with plain files, txt, markdown and WYSIWYG (HTML). It also allows you to write your own stylesheet and JS. So I have a custom template (CSS) and I write almost everything in WYSIWYG (ie HTML). Works really well for code too, as I get syntax highlighting. Other apps I have tried and used over the years: - http://www.mweb.im/ (markdown) - https://ulyssesapp.com/ (markdow…
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on “Ask HN: What do you use to take notes?”Looks like a rip off of http://www.ulyssesapp.com/mac/ .
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on “TextNut – a WYSIWYG markdown editor for Mac”As someone mentioned in this thread, Ulysses 3 can do this. You can "mount" local directories and it will save and show those files in "plaintext". Use Dropbox, Syncthing, BTSync whatever to sync between devices. http://ulyssesapp.com/
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on “TextNut – a WYSIWYG markdown editor for Mac”That looks like a pretty close copy—or rip off, rather—of Ulysses ( http://ulyssesapp.com/ )...
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on “TextNut – a WYSIWYG markdown editor for Mac”I use Ulysses ( http://www.ulyssesapp.com/ ) but then again, it's mostly for straight up text writing. As far as I know, it doesn't support code highlighting.
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on “Show HN: Caret – Better Markdown Editor for the Desktop”I've been using Ulysses, which is a Markdown based text editor for Mac/iOS. I really like it's organizational features and it's export support for various formats. https://ulyssesapp.com/ It's subscription based, $39.99/year, which unlocks is for both Mac and iOS. It's got sync built-in, which is nice for needed to make corrections or updates on the go or to record ideas when I'm out and only have my phone.
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on “Ask HN: How do you author your eBooks in 2017?”
