Recently-Created Shortcuts Links Are Currently Broken 20 Years Ago, Mac OS X Set the Stage for Today’s Apple Spotify Updating Home Hub with Recently Played Section, Deeper Podcast Integration The Pleasures of Conversing via Voice Text Reflector 4 Updated with Modern UI and M1 Mac Support...
Interesting Links
LG unveiled its latest OLED TVs at CES in January, but this week, the new models, which should be available by the end of the month, got prices. (Link) Panic showed off a short video of its upcoming portable game console, the Playdate, mirrored to a Mac, which will allow gameplay to be streamed. The...
In This Issue
Calendar 366,Federico shares his favorite Firefox features, John built a PDF-based read-later workflow using three shortcuts, plus lots of App Debuts, Links, a recap of MacStories articles, and a preview of upcoming podcast episodes....
Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts
Next week on AppStories, Federico and John tackle Apple’s perplexing home strategy, including the devices it makes, the Home app, and the HomeKit API. This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico and John dive into the week’s big Shortcuts link-sharing distraction, the 20th anniversary of Mac OS X, Reflector 4, Spotify updates, and the...
Ulysses: The Ultimate Writing App for Mac, iPad and iPhone [Sponsor]
Ulysses is an exceptional text editor for the Mac, iPad, and iPhone with an unrivaled set of advanced features and a beautiful design that is always being refined and improved. The winner of an Apple Design Award, Ulysses features a distinctive balance of power-user features that writers appreciate in a simple, elegant, distraction-free UI that makes the app a pleasure to use.
A terrific example of the power available in Ulysses is its publishing tools. Users can publish to the most popular blogging platforms from right inside Ulysses. The app includes deep integration with WordPress, Ghost, and Medium, allowing you to publish directly to them, complete with images, tags, and excerpts. Ulysses 22 was just released and added support for Micro.blog and the ability to update previously-published WordPress posts too.
Ulysses has built-in grammar and style checking for over 20 languages and a special dashboard in the sidebar that includes statistics, keywords, and footnotes. An outline of the headings in your writing provides a handy bird’s-eye view of your work and a way to navigate your document.
The app’s Library sidebar helps order your writing into groups that can be nested. Along with features like sync, powerful search and filtering options, keyword support, in-line images that can be stored locally or remotely on a server, and new customization options, Ulysses is as flexible as it is powerful.
You can also set character, word, and other types of writing goals that can be attached to a single document or entire group, which, combined with deadlines, is a fantastic way to form good writing habits. Then, when you’re finished writing, Ulysses has abundant export options, including plain text, Markdown, TextBundle, rich text, DOCX, ePub, HTML, and PDF. To learn more about Ulysses, visit ulysses.app.
Ulysses is free to try before deciding whether to subscribe for $4.99/month or $39.99/year. Students can subscribe for six months at a time for $10.99. MacStories readers can take advantage of a special extended three-month free trial for a limited time. It’s a terrific way to discover the app’s full capabilities, so be sure to check out Ulysses’ new features right away.
Our thanks to Ulysses for sponsoring MacStories this week.
Previously, On MacStories
Nova Review: Panic’s Code Editor Demonstrates Why Mac-like Design Matters Apple’s Perplexing Home Strategy Apple Maps Adds COVID-19 Vaccination Sites in the US Downtime Organizer Sofa Adds Apps, Audiobooks, Board Games, Deeplinking, Backups, and More Themes First Impressions: Kensington’s StudioDock Aims to Turn Your iPad Pro into an Expandable Desktop Workstation Apple Has Discontinued the...
Interview: Sawyer Blatz
Twitter: @SawyerBlatz. Creator of iOS budgeting app, Nudget, and iOS devleoper at Slack. How did you get started with iOS development? I actually started back in 2015 with the release of Swift. I always thought it’d be cool to make apps that I could use on my phone and carry with me every day, but...
In This Issue
An announcement about MacStories Favorite, CleanShot X, more Taio automations fromFederico, aninterview with Nudget developer Sawyer Blatz, plus the usual Links, App Debuts, a recap of MacStories articles, and a preview of upcoming podcast episodes....
Up Next on MacStories’ Podcasts
Next week on AppStories, Federico and John, who are always on the lookout for new ways to read and process the stories they find, discuss the features and approaches they’d like to see in the ideal read-it-later app. This week on MacStories Unwind, Federico and Johncover the new Kensington StudioDock workstation, Panic’s Nova...