While a yearly subscription costs an expensive 50 Euros, it’s totally worth it, and one can try it for free during one month before purchasing it. I can’t recommend this application enough to everyone who enjoys writing. The menus for managing projects take some time to get used to, but are very intuitive after that. The overall presentation makes me « dive » in documents better, and the markdown based writing helps me keep concentrated on my content. While I enjoy Scrivener for being a very powerful tool, I hardly open it anymore since trying Ulysses and its more user friendly interface. I have both Scrivener and Ulysses on my computer.
Ulysses is an application specifically made for writers of all and any kind of long texts. The references for this are Scrivener and Ulysses. Word is fine for shorter documents such as contracts, but does not cut it for more serious writing. There are only a couple of serious applications to mention when it comes to writing long texts, be them books, blog posts, manifests, or anything that requires structure, research and concentration. The next application is my favorite of the bunch, an absolute must have, and the one I am writing this post from: Ulysses. There can be no doubt: this is the best writing application ever! Ulysses – An exquisite writing experience If you’re interested, you can get the application from this link. This being said, it’s a great application to subscribe to for a month or two only, enough to check all the proposed applications out, make your list of keepers, and purchase them for good before resigning the Setapp subscription. But unless you use the majority of the proposed apps – and there are way too many for me-, it’s difficult to justify a yearly fee of 120 USD. Many of the applications present on Setapp can be purchased for good versus a reasonable one-time payment, even though some very interesting subscription based applications are also present. I don’t think a yearly subscription is needed nor financially interesting to most people. Categories of apps range from lifestyle to personal financing, through project management, productivity, creativity, hacks for Mac, etc… Most of the apps presented here are part of the Setapp package – on top of being available individually at a cost of course. Like with Netflix, no one will ever find interest in all 150, but quite a few of them are great. For a cost of 9.99 USD per month (less for yearly subscriptions), one gains access to more than 150 tools and applications. To resume, this is the Netflix of OsX apps. The Setapp application menu resembles the App Store main menu. I therefore found it useful to list some of my favorite ones here. Strangely enough, most of these applications are not available directly from the Apple store, and therefore require some geekiness to be discovered.
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In addition, some application developers worked hard to answer the few gaps that exist between OsX and Windows in an office environment.
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This being said, the Office suite also works perfectly on Macs, while the OsX gestures, stability of Mac computers and intuition of the OsX system make for strong improvements in any workflow.
The Notes, Calendar and Tasks applications are also relatively basic compared to what the Office suite proposes. This may be somehow true when looking at the « out of the box » setup of Mac computers, as it doesn’t offer many useable productivity tools, other than the usual Pages, Keynotes and Numbers suite. This brief experience with Windows made me question the common belief according to which Apple computers are best suited for design professionals and individual use, while Windows based machines are better fits for office work. I have recently re-switched to Mac OsX, after one year of Windows use in my work environment.
Hello everyone! Once again, today’s post isn’t about watches but is more geeky.
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