![]() ![]() ![]() Drag a message from Mail, for instance, and you have an active link to that original message drag a note from the Notes app and all content follows (fancy link previews simply become text links). It turns out Obsidian can ingest and link to a lot more content than I initially thought. The workflow isn’t as elegant as it was with Craft, but the visual aspect is there and it does the job just fine. But with Quick Notes, Pinned Notes, tags and the new deceptively powerful smart folders, it deserves serious consideration. I still find Notes too isolated, and closed, for anything I may need to export in the future. It surfaces the past in ways that make journaling compelling. In fact, it's the first brick that fell before the whole of Craft came tumbling down.ĭay One is hard to beat: it's not just about the writing, but also the metadata it captures automatically, adding context to each entry. I'd been using Daily Notes in Craft since last January (2022), but I still kept Day One in sync by copying entries over, so this was an easy switch. I'd even go so far as to call it pleasant, even on iPad. That said, I don’t believe I’ll need to: after tweaks, theming, and added plugins, Obsidian is a surprisingly good writing environment. This means that I can now use any text editor that can read/write Markdown files from an external location. I then saved everything into a set of folders inside an Obsidian vault-which is also just a normal, everyday folder. ![]() So in order to switch to Obsidian, all I needed to do was export all my documents, from both apps, as Markdown. That’s because Obsidian is only a very powerful front-end to Markdown files, which are themselves just plain text files, saved with the extension. But when the most basic, barebones stuff doesn't work properly, it's clearly time to go.Īs an experiment I also have IA Writer opened on my iPad next to me, with this same post updating live (mostly, there's a small delay). I love the UI, the feature set, the 's a gorgeous app. This means that every post is first copied to markdown from Ulysses, then pasted in IA Writer, copied from IA Writer as formatted, and finally pasted in Squarespace. For some reason, the Rich Text export from Ulysses either omits heading info, or it adds some kind of invisible formatting that messes with the newsletter tools on Squarespace. Launching will often stall for a good ten to fifteen seconds (not just on a cold launch but multiple times a day), and syncing to my iPhone is utterly broken: I thought this was due to storage issues on my iPhone 11, but I reinstalled the app on my new iPhone 14 and it still never downloaded the entire library. īut the icing on the cake is the export function: everything I write for this website needs to be exported from IA Writer (I use the iPad version). Over the past two years or so, my base experience with the app has degraded significantly. With Ulysses, it’s more of a death by a thousand cuts situation. I could write an entire dissertation on the subject, but if you’re curious this post offers a good account of what happened-and the author’s reasons for leaving could basically be a photocopy of mine, word for word (although I would add that the lack of evolving support for native features on both MacOS and iPad/iOS now goes well beyond limited Shorcuts actions). After two years, the app is still as elegant and feature-rich as it’s always been, but its core mission appears to have changed rather drastically. I fell in love with Craft for what it offered, but also for the promises it held. ![]() These decisions came swiftly but, in fact, I’d been building towards this moment for awhile. Then, over the following weekend, I moved out of Ulysses as well. Two weeks ago I did something that would’ve been unthinkable until very recently: I cancelled my Craft subscription. The trick is to know why we feel an urge to move on: is it fixing a genuine set of problems, does it reflect new life circumstances, or is it merely boredom? Switching, fiddling, refining, only to eventually be lured by the latest shiny bauble-and to repeat the same steps again, over and over and over.īut rigidness can be just as damaging. It’s easy to get lost in a never-ending carousel of tools. ![]()
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