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Sync between Ulysses on the Mac and on the iPad - experience?
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Posted by Paul Korm
Aug 16, 2015 at 10:59 PM
Go make a cup of coffee and come back, all should be well ;-)
It’s never clear with iCloud sync when something is syncing in the background and when it isn’t. I’ve found the little cloud icon next to the sheet that’s syncing is a reliable indicator for when sync is not finished. The icon will disappear when Ulysses has finished sync. If I take my iPad to a place without Wi-Fi then I make sure I open Utysses again and examine the groups for unsynced sheets before I open Ulysses on my desktop.
It doesn’t matter if the iPad instance is open but idle as long as you don’t try to use both instances of Ulysses at the same time—especially to edit the same sheet.
Posted by Paul Korm
Aug 16, 2015 at 11:00 PM
This is one of those YMMV situations. You’re just going to have to try for yourself, with your own kit and networks, to see how it goes.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 17, 2015 at 12:19 AM
Yes. I rarely exit Ulysses on any of the devices.
Franz Grieser wrote:
Thanks Stephen.
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>“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?
>
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Posted by Luhmann
Aug 17, 2015 at 02:44 AM
iCloud sync is really slow in every single app which depends upon it. It is so bad that I don’t use iCloud sync if I can avoid it. I was using Simplenote which has one of the best syncing solutions of any note taking app I have seen, but lately I have been looking for something better. Right now I am using Notebooks (with an “s”) which is OK. The desktop app lacks the polish of the iOS version, and you have to flip a lot of settings switches in order to get it to work as a Markdown app -but it is possible. They recently improved their Dropbox sync and I find it quite reliable. And because the files are just plain text files you can open them in any other desktop app you like, such as Byword. I really like Letterpress, but iCloud sync kills it for me. Simplenote would be great if they were actively developing it and working on better Markdown support. I was thinking of trying Ulysses, but the discussion in this thread has convinced me that it isn’t worth the cost. I think I’ll stick with Notebooks for now…
Posted by MadaboutDana
Aug 17, 2015 at 01:54 PM
I use Ulysses quite a lot (as you know), and have found that from dismal beginnings, the iCloud sync between Mac and iPad is now fast and reliable.
iCloud sync is still odd, in the sense that you can’t be absolutely sure when it’s going to happen (usually straight away, sometimes only after several minutes or even - worst case - hours).
But it’s hugely improved on what it was about 10 months ago.
Letterspace also works well for me, partly because the author introduced some kind of kick-butt system that triggers syncing as soon as you load the app.
And despite iCloud’s timing vagaries, I’ve never lost data.
I do, however, save really sensitive docs to multiple sync services, including Soonr (kind of like Dropbox for Business), Dropbox and increasingly, JottaCloud (a Norwegian sync service that’s very moderately priced and hosted in Europe).
Cheers,
Bill