Formatting a ”Hollywood Standard” Screenplay with Ulysses Part 3: Custom Title Alignment In the third and last part of our blog series, you’ll learn what the title page of an industry standard screenplay should look like, how to create one with Ulysses, and how to finalize your script for submission.
Formatting a “Hollywood Standard” Screenplay with Ulysses Part 2: Margins and Page Numbers Welcome to the second part of our blog series! Today, you’ll learn about the use of margins and page numbers in screenplay formatting, and how to adjust these settings in an export style.
Formatting a ”Hollywood Standard” Screenplay with Ulysses Part 1: Document Settings Do you dream of scripting the next blockbuster? Proper formatting will increase your manuscript’s chance of being considered. In our threepart series, learn why the Hollywood standard exists, how to adapt an export style’s settings accordingly, and how to eventually create a compliant script.
Polish Your Text With Revision Mode Concluding a writing project usually means a phase of proofreading and editing. In Ulysses, you can now find a mode that’s been specifically designed for these tasks. Say hello to revision mode!
Everything at Your Fingertips: The Dashboard on iPhone The dashboard gathers all the information that’s relevant to your text in a single spot. Let’s explore this new feature on iPhone, as it enables unprecedented functionality and convenience on your smallest writing device.
Keep Track of Your Text’s Structure With Ulysses’ Revamped Outline With version 20, we’ve revamped Ulysses’ outline navigation and relocated it in the dashboard — on Mac. On iPad and iPhone, outline navigation is entirely new. Let’s take a closer at the new feature and the options to make use of it in your workflow.
Goodbye Mistakes — Hello Grammar and Style Check! As a writer, you want your texts to look good and, of course, be free of spelling and grammar errors. Here or there, however, a mistake sneaks in that you may have overlooked. …
Introducing the Dashboard Earlier this week, we released Ulysses 20 and with it came the brand new dashboard. To give you a quick first impression of how the dashboard works on Mac (and because we’re rather excited about how the dashboard turned out), this time we decided to create a little video.
Working Copy and Ulysses: Track Changes in Technical Writing Projects on the Go For once, fiction authors can stop reading here, this one is for technical writers! Working Copy is a Git client for iPad and iPhone, and because Ulysses version 19 allows embedding external folders on iOS, both apps now work great together.
Manage Inspiration With Keywords Keywords are, among other things, great for keeping track of a large amount of notes. Starting with Ulysses 19, you can enjoy their full functionality in Markdown files saved in external folders as well.
Backup: How Ulysses Automatically Protects Your Texts and What You Should Do Nonetheless The idea of losing a half-written thesis or novel and, therefore, years or months of hard work is nothing less than a nightmare. That’s why a proper backup is essential for anyone.
6 Reasons to Use the iPad as Your Professional Writing Machine “Your next computer is not a computer” is Apple’s claim for the iPad Pro. And it’s true, the iPad (not only the Pro) is becoming more and more capable. The iPad may not yet be 100% perfect for any kind of work – with Ulysses, it definitely makes for a powerful professional writing tool. Here’s why.
Collect Information and Material With Ulysses With version 19, Ulysses now allows you to create so-called material sheets – for all sorts of items that are not meant to become part of your final text. Material sheets are excluded from statistics and export. Here’s everything you need to know to make the best use of the new feature.
Formatting a Paper for MLA Style With Ulysses Style Sheets If you’re a student at a U.S. college, you probably have to turn in written work formatted according to the guidelines of the Modern Language Association (MLA). With Ulysses, you can easily create a document that meets your professor’s expectations. Here’s how.
Your Personal Writing Assistant: Antidote, Now Integrated With Ulysses Grammar checking software is indispensable for many writers — even more so if they write in a foreign language. Antidote from the Canadian developers Druide is more than just a grammar checker.
Dark Mode or Light Mode? It’s Up to You! Apple’s iOS 13 Dark Mode is convenient, as it lets you easily switch your entire iPad or iPhone from light to dark.
Ulysses Now Speaks Dutch and Traditional Chinese Ulysses has again learned two new languages: Dutch and Traditional Chinese!
Sync Your Writing With Dropbox In Ulysses 18, we built in the option to save Ulysses files in external folders (on iOS only Dropbox).
