While he has long embodied continental competition to the manager of British literary projects Scrivener, Ulysses had reinvented itself as a digital “shoebox” for journalists and bloggers, more complex but also more flexible than a simple texter. Ten years laterthe German application returns to its first love by integrating “projects”.
The co-creator of Ulysses, Marcus Fehn, readily admits that the name of this function is not very original. Projects “are a new way to work on big…projects, like a book, a thesis, or an entire blog”. Each project is like a new instance of the application: only the files of the project, which has its own keywords and its own objectives, appear in the sidebar.
Project files are organized linearly by groups, like chapters in a novel or categories in a blog, and transversely by filters, like files written yesterday or resources tagged with a specific keyword. The “extras” contain everything else, including reference documents or drafts. The goal and due date appear clearly in the sidebar.
Projects replace function Focus of the iOS version, which gains a new way to move groups and sheets. The toolbars of the macOS version have been completely revised, and the bugs Scrolling in “Typewriter” mode and appearance of italics with certain fonts have been resolved. Both versions are available in the App Store with a single subscription at €5.99 per month or €49.99 per year, as well as in the Setapp subscription at $12.49 per month (approx. €11.85).
