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Dr Priyanka Upadhyai's avatar

I haven’t used Ulysses but this has gotten me intrigued 😁

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Matt Kmiecik's avatar

It's a very interesting and fun tool!

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Kryptoherra's avatar

How do you publish to substack please? Does the integration work well?

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Matt Kmiecik's avatar

Ulysses currently does not support publishing directly to Substack (but does support publishing directly to WordPress, Medium, Ghost, and Micro.blog). What I usually do is publish to HTML and copy/paste this to the Substack editor and finish the post there. Things like footnotes and images may not translate well, so I usually re-do these in the Substack editor. I hope this helps!

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Alicia's avatar

A great tool makes such a huge difference, and I fully understand this feeling! Have you used other tools?

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Matt Kmiecik's avatar

Yes! I hope to write about them more in the future, but one of my favorite tools to use for academic writing is LaTeX via Overleaf. It's super useful if equations and specific typesetting are your thing. Ulysses is great for fun creative projects across Apple devices.

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Alicia's avatar

Nice one! Perhaps a comparison might be a good post? I’ve used Scrivener.

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Matt Kmiecik's avatar

Yes, I was thinking along the same lines! How do you like Scrivener?

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Alicia's avatar

I liked it well enough, though did find it a bit clunky!

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Matt Kmiecik's avatar

I'm looking forward to testing it out!

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Dr Hajar Tukur's avatar

If I didn’t know better, I’d think this was an ad! 😂 I usually jot ideas and drafts in my Notes app, but it’s pretty dull. Google Docs is where I do my research, for the same reasons you mentioned. I’m curious if Ulysses would be good for publication writing, too, especially in the initial stages before sharing with collaborators. Also, how does it stack up against free options like Notion or apps like Notability?

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Matt Kmiecik's avatar

Thanks for giving my post a read! I think Ulysses is a great place to jot ideas down in the initial stages before sharing with collaborators. It's a great platform to blast away at free flowing ideas with a nice clean interface. I'm not sure how it stacks up against Notion or Notability as I haven't used those apps yet (thanks for mentioning them though!), but another advantage of using Ulysses is that it supports publishing posts directly to the following platforms: WordPress, Medium, Ghost, Micro.blog. Sadly, no Substack :(

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