I bought Ulysses license few teras ago (when it was still non-subscription). I use it intensively dering my college. The closest one with Ulysses is (IMO) iA Writer. It’s one time purchase.
I am still wondering, if not iCloud, why didn’t they try other cloud like pCloud, onedrive, or standard WebDAV, etc?
This looks interesting. I can't try it all, as that requires buying features, which I'm not ready to do yet. How does it compare to something like Evernote or Joplin? It looks a little bit more intuitive vs. the "folder based structure" of other apps. Are you using it for larger projects where you have to take notes for subprojects and do a bit of writing as well?
That seems a complicated workflow. In science, the predominance of Endnote and its integration with MS Word mean this predominates. Many years ago I put my thesis together in FrameMaker – this was perfect, so rule based and extremely stable. It has taken Indesign quite a long time to catch up. Of course we were on obligatory hand written lab books then. As the universities start to introduce mandatory electronic lab books things may be get easier - with time. I have no idea who these things get done in the arts.
Never really used Word for scientific writing. I found that the further people move away from math, the more likely they focus on Word. The people I've worked with who had a focus on abstract concepts, such as design concepts and patterns in software engineering were more likely to use Word than those developing the underlying algorithms and math behind it.
Have never used Joplin and haven't used Evernote in a long time.
I’ve been curious about the sync in Scrivener. If I store the files in icloud and only ever open it from one computer at a time, is there any sync issue? It seems like iClound sync should work well enough in that scenario. Obviously If I am simultaneously accessing from multiple locations or am doing a quick switch, you could could catch it before the iCloud sync was done, but I don’t plan to use it that way.
It is. I’m a doing a PhD in design. My thesis format requires a grid-based layout that cannot be achieved in word.. multiple columns, image grids across multiple pages etc. the need to have a single source of truth is vital. I have seen other fall foul of importing their ‘final’ text into indesign and in the end having to manage changes in multiple locations. Indesign is quite basic for citations and footnotes but it works. With a bit of work done up front with styles (think page and column breaks) the layout become quite automated. Incopy is the app used by publishers to manage multiple user editing. Here it is used to see if any incopy files have a more recent created date (automatically created from a watch folder of markdown.) In which case I manually approve the update in indesign and it puts everything in the right place. For referencing I actually use Papers which merged with ReadCube. Like their previous version it’s taken about 3 years to get to a good product but now it’s really useable and I have no complaints. I have tied ALL reference managers and this is (for me) the best of an imperfect selection.
Interesting reading. I haven't looked at Papers since 3. We use Indesign for our student books and I do like it (and during my PhD I provided computer support for a friends small publishing house), but we wouldn't encourage our students studying medical/veterinary and related disciplines such as virology or bacteriology to use anything but Word. The learning curve of using many other things would be counterproductive. I see how when doing a PhD in design tools like creative suite are essential knowledge.
Not used it myself but…
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