![]() ![]() The second project is web development documentation. I’m not writing on a phone or tablet and don’t care about syncing. There’s Google Docs, but I’d prefer a desktop copy I can backup to the cloud with Dropbox. TextEdit and the MacOS Finder are a bit under-powered for this, and Microsoft Word remains a bother (and expensive). I need a way to manage all this that can be indexed and quickly searched. I have research documents and quotes, an extensive outline with facts, citations, scenes and ideas, and the final proposal itself (and eventually the book chapters). ![]() The first project is a nonfiction book proposal. Here are my quick thoughts on Ulysses and Bear. I’m working on a handful of long-term projects with different needs and scales, and before I dig in too deeply, I took a day to sample the new generation of writing apps. ![]() The files are small, the app is quick, and the text is universal. So I write everything now in Apple’s (almost) crash-free TextEdit, add HTML tags by hand, and paste my plain-text writing wherever it needs to go. Since then, I’ve found my way around a half-dozen CMSs from WordPress to Tumblr to Movable Type to Medium, and realized it’s too easy for a browser crash or an errant back-button click to destroy a draft. In the early, pre-blogging days, I word-processed in Microsoft Word like everybody else. Writing app first impressions: Ulysses and Bear Writing app first impressions: Ulysses and BearĪs a writer, I try to keep it simple. ![]()
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