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Ulysses v15 Released
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Posted by Paul Korm
Mar 11, 2019 at 01:24 PM
Version 15 of the macOS / iOS Ulysses “writing app” has been released.
Features:
Brand-new keyword filtering and management
See all used keywords in sheet search
Filter for multiple keywords
Merge and rename keywords
Editor split view
You can now open a second editor within the same window
Editor can be split vertically and horizontally
Hold option key to scroll both editors simultaneously
Improved image support
Editor will now show a preview for web images
Web images are now exported to PDF and DOCX
Export image size can be set for each image
Support for WordPress 5.0 “Gutenberg”
Dark reading mode in export preview
When in dark mode, you can switch to a dark preview of your exported sheets
Changes and Improvements:
Reworked main window keyboard navigation to better handle editor split view
Empty links, images and footnotes are now greyed out in the editor
Empty sheets are erased immediately when moved to the trash
When deleting a style, theme or markup, it is now deleted on all synced devices
Improved error handling for iCloud syncing problems
Added TextPack export option
Fixes:
Import of PDF files using Share Extension
Export preview when changing order of glued sheets
Handling of umlauts and other characters in URLs
Crash when editing a goal
Crash when editing text with smart tags
Crash when typing Tcl code in code blocks
Crash in Share Extension when importing large images
Resizing of the navigation panel
HEIC files are now converted to JPEG during export
Focus is immediately set to search bar when using command-F
Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 11, 2019 at 09:13 PM
Still no linking to notes? That’s a shame. Still, I shall evaluate with interest.
Posted by Amontillado
Mar 11, 2019 at 10:13 PM
Ulysses is almost perfect for writing in a lightly formatted way, but one basket for all the eggs is still limiting.
The new keyword manager is nice, but there’s only one set of keywords across everything in your library.
If Ulysses had a way to use individual libraries, I’d be very happy.
Posted by Luhmann
Mar 12, 2019 at 02:24 AM
The new keyword management interface is sorely disappointing. It is a pop-up window rather than integrated into the main interface, and few other changes have been made to make it easier to manage keywords. In the end I just don’t use them, relying on folders instead.
Posted by Hugh
Mar 12, 2019 at 03:15 PM
Compared with Scrivener (say), Ulysses has no real outlining tools. You can put a comment at the top of each of a series of sheets, but that’s all. This handicaps it for writing anything much longer than a report, a blog or an essay.
So the sooner the application can import OPML sheet by sheet, from (say) OmniOutliner without going via Scrivener, the better as far as I’m concerned. I’d been hoping that the latest version might include this feature.
Otherwise, for me it remains a convenient tool for writing shorter long-form without distraction.