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Ulysses III - Mac App for Writing - Intro Price $20.99 (50% off)

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“The app is awesome.” — Ben Brooks
“I’m really impressed.” — David Sparks
“Fantastic.” — Charlie Sorrel

Ulysses III is a brand-new writers’ environment from the Soulmen — the fine folks that brought you Daedalus Touch for iPad.

It’s built around a revolutionary engine, dubbed “plain text enhanced”, which combines the very best parts of minimal markup (i.e. Markdown, Textile) with the power, beauty and simplicity of OS X.

As a single-library app, Ulysses holds all your texts in just one window. No “Open”, no “Save”, no Finder safari. Full iCloud integration lets you access everything from all your Macs.

If you own Daedalus Touch (available on the App Store as a universal app for iPad and iPhone), Ulysses III can even sync your writings across all your devices. Start on the bus, continue at home, finish mid-flight. Export to RTF, PDF, TXT or HTML.

Ulysses III is flexible, adaptive, and built to grow. Use it as a sophisticated notepad, create your next couple of novels, or continuously feed your blog. Keep everything neatly organized, or mess around at will.

FEATURES:

Beefed-up, minimalistic three-pane interface
- Sources › Groups & Filters › Sheets › Editor
- Select across sources
- Select multiple groups & filters
- Edit multiple sheets as one
- Export and statistics from every part of the library
- Full keyboard navigation
- Simply beautiful

Most advanced text editor on the planet
- “Plain Text Enhanced”
- Links, Lists, Quotes & Footnotes
- Comments, Code, Keywords & Annotations
- Drag’n’drop of images and videos
- Preview of images and videos
- Text structure navigation
- Bookmarks & Favorites
- Multiple text statistics
- Functional markup cheat sheet
- Dark, light, pure and paged writing modes
- Several hand-picked color schemes
- Export to PDF, Word, RTF, TXT, Markdown and HTML
- Copy as PDF, HTML, RTF and Plain Text
- Paste from HTML, Markdown and RTF
- Inspiring typography

OS Integration
- Full iCloud Sync
- Versions
- Full Screen
- Spelling and Grammar
- Text Substitutions
- Dictionary
- Speech
- Spotlight Search
- Enhanced for Retina
- A true fit

External Sources
- Import and edit text files from anywhere on disk
- Share files via Dropbox
- Preview in Marked.app

Inside jokes
- Support for umlauts (ä, ü, ö)
- Apostrophes and dashes
- Auto-Capitalization when holding the Shift key
- Line breaks and spaces
- Left-to-right writing direction
- Simple launch via double-click

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  • Anyone used this app? Any comments? After feedback from people who might be using this to write fiction/non-fiction as opposed to code.

    • I've used it today, and I've also used Ulysses 2, and Daedalus Touch.

      Ulysses 3 is a very polished text editor, but unfortunately it doesn't offer much more than many others like iA Writer, ByWord.

      The Soulmen basically scrapped Ulysses 2, which had support for exporting to ePub, Latex, and a few other formats, and built Ulysses 3 from scratch. At the moment there is TXT, RTF, HTML, and PDF export, and iCloud sync to and from Daedalus Touch.

      U3 doesn't have files in the sense of open/save dialogs. It lists your Groups of files on the left column, local or on Daedalus, and "sheets" (like in Daedalus) in the centre column, with your work area on the right. If you want to backup to a Dropbox account or some other location then you'll have to export a file to where you want to backup.

      If you've never used Ulysses before then it's not a badly polished text editor, but after using Ulysses 2 the only thing that feels like an upgrade at this point in time is the iCloud sync. Various file format exports like ePub and Latex, which were in Ulysses 2, are described on the Soulmen's blog as "coming soon" to Ulysses 3.

      Get it now for $21 or later for $42, after this introductory sale, and various file export and management functions of Ulysses 2 are put into Ulysses 3. For an estimate on when, you can follow the Ulysses Devblog.

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