![]() Part of the reason is that the app is incredibly responsive. I don’t know quite what it is about Ulysses, though, but I’ve been able to draft posts far better than I have in other mobile apps. I twiddle my thumbs much more slowly than I do all ten of my fingers together, so my mobile productivity has always been pretty lacking. Writing on a smartphone has never been the most pleasant experience. If you’re working on Apple devices, the sync is seamless and pretty much instant. One of the most useful features is that Ulysses is cross-platform with iOS and MacOS. Hitting CMD-B gives me bold text, hitting CMD-I italicizes what I write, and so on and so forth.Īnd if you’re not a keyboard shortcut kind of person (you should be, by the way), there’s a handy-dandy cheat sheet you can use for the different markdown syntax. Using markdown is technically easier than writing HTML (which is what many of us WPers tend to write in, anyway–just including flags and formatting as we go).Īnd it’s really no different than writing in a WYSIWYG editor like the default WordPress TinyMCE. It’s technically a markdown editor, but don’t let that frighten you away. Ulysses isn’t a simple-text editor like Sublime or Atom. You won’t be able to set up and check plugin status (such as Yoast SEO), but going into the dashboard just to double-check details and proof your work should be a normal part of your workflow anyway. You can pretty much do everything that you need to from within Ulysses itself–set categories and tags, alter the post slug, add a featured image–that you could do from the WP dashboard itself. It’s a third-party text editor that connects with your WordPress sites to upload and edit drafts, publish directly from the app, the whole shebang. There are a number of reasons I’ve fallen for Ulysses, but not the least of which is its built-in integration with WordPress. After talking with him about it, I knew I had to give it a shot, and now that I have…I may be hooked. Weller, the content manager here at Elegant Themes, for putting me onto Ulysses. ![]() Maybe my favorite text editor in general, too. ![]() Hands down, it’s my favorite WordPress text editor. I have Bear and Evernote to jot things down, and I even occasionally use the iOS/MacOS Notes app on the fly.īut Ulysses– my dear, dear Ulysses–gets more use than any of them by a large margin. Microsoft Word, Scrivener, and Apple Pages take care of long-form, rich-text editing. I use Atom or Sublime Text 3 for when I need to write code. I know that I have at least half a dozen different text editors/word processors on my MacBook for different kinds of tasks. Especially when it comes to the tools we use to put words to paper–or pixels to screen in this case.
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