Questions tagged [ulysses]

A writing app which is: minimalist, distraction-free, and fully-featured. It uses Markdown format as text medium. Runs on MacOS and iOS.

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Make Emacs (or vim etc) like Ulysses

For many years I have been trying to find a good text editor for writing fiction. I have used Scrivener, Ulysses and others but they seem slow and you always reach the point where you want things to behave differently and you can't. I have tried Vim…
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Are there custom placeholders in Ulysses app?

Does the ulysses app have anything that is useful for creating placeholder text? For instance, if I didn't have a character name, or a place name I could do: {protagonist_first_name} or {placename_1} And then just do a search and replace. I just…
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How to do a global find and replace in Ulysses

I use Ulysses 15 for my writing. The tool has a robust global search but, to my knowledge, it does not provide a replace function (only the sheet search has a "find and replace" function). Does anyone know how to use the global search, with all of…
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