Ulysses

Ulysses is a text editor for creative writers. Used by bloggers, poets, students and published novelists all over the world, it offers an integrated environment to brainstorm, draft, revise and even submit text on a professional level.

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ulysses is a text editor for creative writers. used by bloggers, poets, students and published novelists all over the world, it offers an integrated environment to brainstorm, draft, revise and even submit text on a professional level.

based around the concept of nonlinear, semantic text editing, ulysses provides a truly distractionfree and fully focused experience, without sacrificing any advanced features.

it’s got everything you expect from a modern text editor – and then some:

tabbed, singlewindow interface semantic text editing true separation of presentation and content console mode (aka “distractionfree writing environment”) extensible export (pdf, doc, rtf, txt, html, epub) projectwide, termcentric search & replace multiple document and project notes excerpts counters for characters, words & pages configurable metadata (status, label, dates) integrated backup filters, groups and document collections coherent document previews text trash typewriter scrolling bookmarks and stylejumpers project templates english, german, french, dutch, spanish, portuguese, russian, italian, swedish, norwegian, hungarian and czech localizations

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MarkDown support Tabbed interface Export to PDF Distraction free writing Export to ePub Sync with iCloud

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