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Sync between Ulysses on the Mac and on the iPad - experience?
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Posted by Franz Grieser
Aug 16, 2015 at 11:11 AM
Hi.
I started using Ulysses on my Macbook for a new project. As I have the iPad with me more often than the Macbook, I got the iPad version, too, in order to sync my library through iCloud.
According to the Soulmen support (they answered within one day during the weekend, which I found pretty impressive), I can have Ulysses open on the Macbook and the iPad simultaneously and work on the library on both machines.
As using Dropbox that way would not work, I’d like to hear from the Ulysses afficionados here (Bill, Stephen ...): What’s your experience with syncing the Ulysses library? Do I risk losing notes when I do as Soulmen support suggested?
Thanks, Franz
Posted by Paul Korm
Aug 16, 2015 at 02:01 PM
I’ve been writing a lot of articles with Ulysses recently, moving back and forth between OS X and iPad. The iCloud sync has been “reliable” but not fast. That’s not The Soulmen’s fault—it’s Apple’s. In practice, what is means is to wait a while (maybe a minute or so) before swtiching devices and resuming editing. Pay attention to the little cloud icon that appears next to the sheet that’s syncing on either device. If a conflict occurs (very rare) Ulysses will ask what you want to keep—one version, or the other, or merge.
OTOH working with Dropbox files in Ulysses is so odd, I gave up on it and moved every group (document) to iCloud.
Drafts and Editorial do the Dropbox sync thing a lot better. I’ve also been using Editorial on iPad syncing with Sublime Text on OS X thru Dropbox because Editorial and Sublime Text have a much broader and richer implementation of Markdown features than Ulysses. They are both just better plain text editors, IMO. (Never have understand why The Soulmen have not added table markup to the app.)
Posted by Franz Grieser
Aug 16, 2015 at 04:20 PM
Thanks Paul. That increases my confidence in the sync process :-)
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 16, 2015 at 06:56 PM
The only time I experienced a problem with syncing between my iPad and my two MacBooks with Ulysses was when I was writing on one of the units (don’t recall which) when I didn’t have wifi. I ended up losing some work, although I was never completely clear of the exact sequence of events that caused it. Since then, I’ve always been aware to make sure I give each device a chance to sync to iCloud before working on another device.
I concur that the sync is somewhat slow sometimes, so you have to be patient.
Other than that, no problems.
Steve Z.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Aug 16, 2015 at 09:56 PM
Thanks Stephen.
“I’ve always been aware to make sure I give each device a chance to sync to iCloud before working on another device” - that means, you wait a minute or two before working on the same note on a different device? And it does not mean you close the app on device 1 before launching it on device 2 - right?