Want to write more but cannot find the perfect writing environment? Well, your current writing software might be the culprit. While you might be using the most feature-rich writing app available to mankind, the fact is that you should be using a writing app which assists you in getting words out from your head and on to a blank page, as quickly and efficiently as possible. Thankfully, there are a couple of apps on the Mac App Store which can do that for you.
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Over the last year, I have tried and tested many of them including Ulysses, Scrivener, iA Writer, ByWord, and many more. All the apps that I tested have their own advantages and shortcomings, that said, I found Ulysses to be the most complete package of them all. And although Ulysses has received a lot of hate in the recent times because the company decided to switch to a subscription-based pricing model, there is no denying the fact that it’s the best writing app available for Mac today.
In this article, we are going to see why I consider Ulysses to be the most productive writing app for Mac and find out if it’s the one for your or not. That said, it’s not going to be your typical review article where I just discussed the features and tell you to go buy it. In fact, since I have been using Ulysses for a long time and am pretty much familiar with all its features, I would like to guide you through its interface step-by-step and check out all its major features so that you can decide for yourself if Ulysses is worth your time and money or not.
What is Ulysses?
In its most basic definition, Ulysses is a plain text editor which uses Markdown, a lightweight markup language, for formatting and enhancing the plain text. Ulysses allows writers to format their texts without lifting their fingers away from the keyboard. The app also brings a clean writing interface which keeps the distractions at bay allowing users to focus just on the writing.
However, Ulysses’s clean and beautiful user interface must not be confused and correlated with lack of features. On the contrary, the app brings all the tools a user will ever need to write, organize, and complete their writing projects. From writing short notes to essays to a full-blown 60,000 words novel, Ulysses has enough power to handle everything one can throw at it.
I love how Ulysses has managed to strike the perfect balance between power and simplicity. In the next sections, we will see how powerful Ulysses actually is and how it manages to keep it hidden until you need them, ensuring that you are receiving one of the cleanest writing environment possible. Okay, so now that you have a basic idea about Ulysses, let’s get to the tutorial-cum-review of the app.