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Notebooks as a Ulysses replacement
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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 20, 2017 at 05:46 PM
Ulysses exports documents not just in different file formats (PDF, ePub, Plain Text, HTML, DocX), it also has several different styles depending on what type of document you’re exporting. It is really one of the most thoughtful features of the app.
Dellu wrote:
> It has fewer and less elegant export options.
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>Why do you need to export? the point of transparently storing files in
>Finder is to avoid the whole process of export and import. If the app
>supports transparent storing of the files, to my sense, looking for
>export feature is like asking for an inferior feature.
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Posted by Tomasz Raburski
Aug 20, 2017 at 08:06 PM
Following this discussion, last week I installed Notebooks on my windows 10 machine. Tried to run it, but it was dead as a dodo. I wrote to support, and I’m still waiting for their response.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 20, 2017 at 08:38 PM
That’s disturbing. I am running it okay on Windows 7, but haven’t tried 10. Would like to hear what support has to say.
Tomasz Raburski wrote:
Following this discussion, last week I installed Notebooks on my windows
>10 machine. Tried to run it, but it was dead as a dodo. I wrote to
>support, and I’m still waiting for their response.
Posted by Hugh
Aug 20, 2017 at 09:10 PM
Doesn’t Ulysses have one or two key characteristics which any potential replacement ought to match or exceed?
There seem to me to be at least two such characteristics. They are: its facility to allow “chunks” of text to be quickly and easily re-arranged within the whole, and its feature enabling relatively straightforward export or “compilation” of the text in a wide variety of styles and formats. Those two features make it particularly attractive if you’re engaged in writing medium- or long-form work (and these plainly provide reasons for novelist David Hewson’s fondness for it). And it has other features which also support this type of writing.
Notebooks is of course, as its name suggests, primarily a note-taking application (and it’s a very good one). In other words, it’s an application primarily designed for writing and managing short-form text. Of course, there’s potential for cross-over between Notebooks and Ulysses: in the past I’ve certainly read of some users deploying Ulysses when Notebooks or its rivals might seem the more obvious tool, and I’m sure the opposite is also true. I’m sure that you could write “War and Peace” in Notebooks - but you could also do so in countless applications. But if you want software that will match Ulysses’ attributes as closely as possible, it seems to me that Notebooks will leave you somewhat disappointed.
Posted by Paul Korm
Aug 21, 2017 at 12:54 AM
Hmmm. Unfortunate. I’ve been running Notebooks on Windows 10 for quite awhile. No crashes or issues.
Tomasz Raburski wrote:
Following this discussion, last week I installed Notebooks on my windows
>10 machine. Tried to run it, but it was dead as a dodo. I wrote to
>support, and I’m still waiting for their response.