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If you read books at all (and I mean even if you read just a little) you should consider keeping a commonplace book. I am writing a series of articles about commonplace books and this is the fourth article in the series, which talks about how I configure and use Ulysses to keep a commonplace book.
If you’re just getting into this series with this article, I suggest you start at the beginning of the series and work your way through:
- Commonplace Books Part 1: What Are They?
- Commonplace Books Part 2: Why Keep One and How?
- Commonplace Book Part 3: Choosing a System
What Is Ulysses?
The precursor of Ulysses was a 2003 text processing application for creative writers. Fast forward to 2011 and the company behind the current day Ulysses app was formed. Ulysses started out life as an easy to use writing tool with minimal user interface distraction all while being a powerful writing app for the Mac, but expanded to the iPad in 2015 and then later to the iPhone as well. And then in 2017, Ulysses moved to a subscription-only model. So right now you can download the Ulysses applications for free and get a 14-day free trial along with it, but after that, you will have to subscribe to continue using the tool. Since going to a subscription…
