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Posted by satis
Apr 22, 2022 at 02:13 PM
FYI thriller writer Matt Gemmell, who’s written several novels (almost?) exclusively in Ulysses on his iPad, guests on the latest iPad Pros podcast, in which he discusses Ulysses
https://ipadpros.net/2022/04/21/episode-139-writing-novels-with-matt-gemmell/
Posted by Amontillado
Apr 22, 2022 at 02:35 PM
My objection to everything going in one big file in Ulysses is that I didn’t want one database to rule them all. Blog posts, novel(s), letters to fussy Aunt Mabel, essays, and whatever other drivel I write should not, in my humble view, all go in the same pot. I think Ulysses now allows external folders, which I would probably use.
Currently, I’m back in the Mellel camp for word processing. Nisus is nice. Mellel is heavy artillery (and an acquired taste).
My markdown editor of choice, at least currently, is BBEdit on the Mac. If I were on Windows, there is no question for me - VEDIT by Greenview Data is the king of all editors. I first bought it in about 1985, back when upscale PC’s had ten megabyte hard drives and 640k of memory, and it is still in active development.
VEDIT will edit ASCII and EBCDIC. EBCDIC is both rare and weird, but there’s nothing like the feeling of translating EBCIDC files to ASCII when other available tools could not and everyone else has given up.
VEDIT will also open a disk as a file. Debugging a FAT filesystem is pretty cool when you can grab it by the ears and edit it in hex display mode.
The macro language is a thing of beauty, too.
I wrote piles and piles of both prose and code with VEDIT. Sigh. The good old days.
On Linux, even though I’m Word-hostile I think I’d install SoftMaker Office, which is an MS Office work-alike. I think I’d also write more in Markdown.
I was an emacs patriot for many years. Having to admin Solaris systems swung me over to vim. I might repolarize back to emacs for Markdown. Or, I might just go with muscle memory for commands and keep using vim.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Apr 22, 2022 at 03:07 PM
I share your doubts concerning the single Ulysses database. I much prefer single files. The reason I like markdown is because of the minimal footprint/maximum accessibility – there are so. many. markdown. editors! Not to mention markdown-friendly search tools.
I’ve had occasion to move swathes of markdown notes from one management tool to another, and still find the ease with which you can do that very gratifying.
Typora is a lovely, lovely editor! But I’ve been pleased to see 1Writer make something of a comeback on iOS. It totally disappeared for a while…
Posted by satis
Apr 22, 2022 at 06:30 PM
Ulysses has allowed external folders since early 2020. (On iOS I think you are restricted to using Dropbox.)
https://help.ulysses.app/kb/guide/en/ulysses-library-1ixlk3xF76/Steps/997891
That said, I mainly use the app’s database and have never had any issue.
Posted by Dormouse
Apr 23, 2022 at 03:54 AM
satis wrote:
Ulysses has allowed external folders since early 2020. (On iOS I think
>you are restricted to using Dropbox.)
>
Inspire Writer added this feature in May 2019.