Drafts And Long Form Writing?

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Federico Viticci of AppStories mentioned that he used Drafts in composting his many thousand word review of iOS 11. (long form to me…)

The standard spiel is use Drafts as a stating point for text. Yes, yes I agree. But, I have been thinking I’d prefer using one app for short and long form writing. Currently Drafts and Ulysses coexist on iPad and Mac.

I’m wondering about using Drafts exclusively.

Drafts

  • Drafts now runs on my Mac
  • There are WordPress publishing actions

But Ulysses does this and handles getting images on the page (can Drafts). But, I also use WP’s editor on every post. There’re workarounds.

Are you doing longer and longest pieces using Drafts?

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Nope. I prefer the way Ulysses lets me customize my writing space.

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To me Drafts remains a place to start some types of text.

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How did you get the banner in Ulysses? I use Ulysses for the vast majority my writing but I’ve never seen that capability.

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My appreciation of Ulysses is undiminished. But, I am checking my way of looking at the world. It’s like writing a story starter — Drafts has replaced all copies of Ulysses what does the world look like?

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It’s not a banner - it’s just an editor theme called Lecture Notes that highlights the first-order headers like that.

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It’s one of the many of the dozens of free-to-download themes available at the Ulysses Style Exchange.

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Also tossing out Scrivener as a good option for long form writing which syncs to the iPad.

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As long as you don’t use Scrivenings, which the developer decided not to let sync to iOS. (Unless that changed recently.)

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Scrivener I used it for several years, powerful. Quit using when L&L had difficulty getting iOS to market. Never saw a reason to go back.

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iA Writer for me. I find drafts a bit confusing to get into with workspaces etc. I just want a simple clean writing experience.

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I’m doing all my writing in it. Highly recommended. It’s not for everyone, but it works well for me. Use it daily, even if I’m not publishing with it.

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