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Posted by satis
Nov 7, 2022 at 02:17 PM
Interesting. They have sold a Ulysses course for years (which I bought nearly five years ago), and now they’re selling a new one for Obsidian. Obsidian is the new Hotness in the market, and it’s not coincidental that they’re focusing on it now, while the more mature Ulysses course probably sells a lot less now.
https://thesweetsetup.com/courses/learnulysses/
https://thesweetsetup.com/obsidian/
I think Obsidian still has a long way to go to match the polish of the Ulysses writing experience on Mac and especially iOS, including choice of font, powerful export themes, trivial style changes, and even a user-submitted library of styles and export types for download.
https://styles.ulysses.app/themes/
Obsidian definitely has its advantages, but when I want to write long-form pieces that sync to my iOS devices and which I can easily export to txt, docx, html, pdf or epub I always reach for Ulysses, and I anticipate continuing to do so for at least another couple of years.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 10, 2022 at 11:41 AM
Can’t argue with that – Ulysses is very much an optimised writer’s tool in a way Obsidian simply isn’t. But some of their suggested plugins are pretty cool (I’ve installed their “better” word count tool, as well as the clever “novel count” tool that counts up words in all the notes in a given folder, then displays both the note count and the word count alongside each folder in the navigation bar – and even the page count, if you want it to).
The very best Ulysses feature (IMHO) is the ability to view multiple notes together, as a single piece of text. While Obsidian doesn’t do that (as far as I know, anyway), the new tab stacking feature does make it much easier to “stack” multiple notes adjacently and then leaf through them – moreover the selection can be entirely random.
I also like the simple fact that Obsidian notes are essentially separate text files, whereas Ulysses uses its own database (with the option of accessing “external” folders, of course). I should emphasise that I like Ulysses very much. But I’m not paying anything for Obsidian (yet!), and it’s progressing at an astonishing rate (whereas Ulysses has defaulted to a somewhat sedate pace of development – understandable, because the last thing they want is feature overload, but still).
Cheers!
Bill
Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 10, 2022 at 11:53 AM
Oh, and it’s also worth mentioning that there are loads of plugins enabling you to export Obsidian notes to virtually anything at all. Some of them are based on the Pandoc extension, for example. Others allow you to export to various flashcard formats (including Anki and Mochi). Their elegance/efficiency is, of course, variable, but some are already looking very polished.
As I’ve discovered, the nice thing about Obsidian is that it’s easy to switch plugins on and off, as you need them.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 10, 2022 at 11:53 AM
Oh, and it’s also worth mentioning that there are loads of plugins enabling you to export Obsidian notes to virtually anything at all. Some of them are based on the Pandoc extension, for example. Others allow you to export to various flashcard formats (including Anki and Mochi). Their elegance/efficiency is, of course, variable, but some are already looking very polished.
As I’ve discovered, the nice thing about Obsidian is that it’s easy to switch plugins on and off, as you need them.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Nov 10, 2022 at 01:01 PM
I completely agree with this. Being able to read your writing sections as one long document is very useful in ensuring a smooth, engaging flow to your writing. I wish more writing apps did this.
MadaboutDana wrote:
>The very best Ulysses feature (IMHO) is the ability to view multiple
>notes together, as a single piece of text.