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Ulysses v15 Released
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Posted by Hugh
Mar 13, 2019 at 11:40 AM
satis wrote:
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>Hugh wrote:
>> Compared with Scrivener (say), Ulysses has no real outlining tools.
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>How do you outline in Scrivener?
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>>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.
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>As someone who uses Ulysses and recently upgraded to OmniOutliner Pro,
>I’d be very interested in that!
“How do you outline in Scrivener?” I use Scrivener’s own outliner and/or its index card feature.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 13, 2019 at 02:22 PM
Having been a bit snarky about Ulysses 15, I’m delighted to find you can open side-by-side editors in multiple windows (on macOS), and even choose the orientation in each separate window (vertical/horizontal). It’s neatly arranged (little fade-in icon that appears in twin-editor view is used to control orientation, highlighting, etc.).
Nicely done, Ulysses. But where’s the note linking?
Posted by Hugh
Mar 13, 2019 at 03:19 PM
MadaboutDana wrote:
Having been a bit snarky about Ulysses 15, I’m delighted to find you can
>open side-by-side editors in multiple windows (on macOS), and even
>choose the orientation in each separate window (vertical/horizontal).
>It’s neatly arranged (little fade-in icon that appears in twin-editor
>view is used to control orientation, highlighting, etc.).
>
>Nicely done, Ulysses. But where’s the note linking?
I don’t want to be snarky about Ulysses, either. Clearly a lot of work has been put into developing the split-editor feature, and making it user-friendly. I still think that Ulysses is an excellent tool for some purposes. It’s just that paying a sub every year makes one more impatient - perhaps irrationally - than one would be if one were simply coughing up for an upgrade every four or five.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 13, 2019 at 04:30 PM
Exactly, Hugh. What also does, I confess, surprise me somewhat is that Ulysses has its own library system, meaning it effectively has its own file format. So some of these features should, in principle, be relatively easy to incorporate.
And yet progress seems to take place really quite slowly. Much fuss, I feel, is made about relatively minor new features. Yes, it’s a good program (or collection of apps), but I’d like to see a proper roadmap now.