#IA WRITER WORDPRESS SOFTWARE#

#IA WRITER WORDPRESS SOFTWARE#

The only other app I’ve ever used that had typewriter mode built in was Scrivener, and I stopped using it solely because the software itself was bloated for my needs (it’s great for when I’m working on my novels, but not so much when I’m blogging). It gives a feeling of openness and ease to writing that removes a minor distraction that often turns major for long sessions at the keyboard. You aren’t scrolling through the document and constantly keeping your eyes at the bottom of the screen (as tends to happen in Google Docs or Microsoft Word). Out.īasically, it’s a simple feature that keeps your cursor centered in the app’s window and highlights the line you’re currently working on. If you’ve never used a text editor in typewriter mode, you are missing out, my friend. The single best feature that Ulysses offers over most other text editors is the typewriter mode. Once I saw it, though, it worked immediately. I wasn’t aware this folder/group existed and fought with the app a little to get sync enabled. Heck, even the awesome new official WordPress app is laggy in comparison, and I’ve been using it a lot more lately.īe aware, though, that you must save your documents in the iCloud folder/group to enable sync. The developers have done a fantastic job of removing bloat, and I never feel like I am working on a half-second delay like I do in other mobile writing apps–I’m looking at you Google Docs. Part of the reason is that the app is incredibly responsive. I don’t know quite what it is about Ulysses, though, but I’ve been able to draft posts far better than I have in other mobile apps. I twiddle my thumbs much more slowly than I do all ten of my fingers together, so my mobile productivity has always been pretty lacking. Writing on a smartphone has never been the most pleasant experience.

If you’re working on Apple devices, the sync is seamless and pretty much instant. One of the most useful features is that Ulysses is cross-platform with iOS and MacOS. Hitting CMD-B gives me bold text, hitting CMD-I italicizes what I write, and so on and so forth.Īnd if you’re not a keyboard shortcut kind of person (you should be, by the way), there’s a handy-dandy cheat sheet you can use for the different markdown syntax. Using markdown is technically easier than writing HTML (which is what many of us WPers tend to write in, anyway–just including flags and formatting as we go).Īnd it’s really no different than writing in a WYSIWYG editor like the default WordPress TinyMCE. It’s technically a markdown editor, but don’t let that frighten you away. Ulysses isn’t a simple-text editor like Sublime or Atom. You won’t be able to set up and check plugin status (such as Yoast SEO), but going into the dashboard just to double-check details and proof your work should be a normal part of your workflow anyway. You can pretty much do everything that you need to from within Ulysses itself–set categories and tags, alter the post slug, add a featured image–that you could do from the WP dashboard itself. It’s a third-party text editor that connects with your WordPress sites to upload and edit drafts, publish directly from the app, the whole shebang. There are a number of reasons I’ve fallen for Ulysses, but not the least of which is its built-in integration with WordPress. After talking with him about it, I knew I had to give it a shot, and now that I have…I may be hooked. Weller, the content manager here at Elegant Themes, for putting me onto Ulysses. Maybe my favorite text editor in general, too. Hands down, it’s my favorite WordPress text editor. I have Bear and Evernote to jot things down, and I even occasionally use the iOS/MacOS Notes app on the fly.īut Ulysses– my dear, dear Ulysses–gets more use than any of them by a large margin. Microsoft Word, Scrivener, and Apple Pages take care of long-form, rich-text editing. I use Atom or Sublime Text 3 for when I need to write code. I know that I have at least half a dozen different text editors/word processors on my MacBook for different kinds of tasks. Especially when it comes to the tools we use to put words to paper–or pixels to screen in this case.

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