Ulysses

Ulysses is an interesting text editor for OS X, aimed at creative writers, but with enough useful features to make it worth condsidering for anyone who regularly works with a number of related documents.

For example, I often have an interview transcript, research notes, odd little paragraphs and lines jotted down and the beginnings of a finished piece all open in front of me.

With other text editors, this can mean a lot of clutter and, with multiple unsaved documents open, slipshod tapping of command key combinations can lead to data loss disaster.

With Ulysses, all the documents in a project are presented side-by-side in a single tabbed window, with a dedicated note-taking pane and a rather nifty project-wide search. Oh, and there’s a running word count, which is the only text editing feature anyone writing really needs, but one which most developers fail to provide.

That said, this isn’t exactly a pretty application, and some features are more than a little unintuitive. I’m not quite ready to ditch BBEdit yet, then, but with Ulysses currently at version 1.0, it is certainly worth keeping an eye on.

Posted at 4pm on 14/08/03 by Jack Mottram to the mac category.
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