October 9, 2004

• I was thinking to myself, wishing I had a text editor that would fill the whole screen with a big black window, so all I would see is what I'm writing.

  I was ready to try and hack one together from the source code for TextEdit, but then I found this:

  Ulysses. It's a project-oriented text editor, meaning you can use it to group multiple files together, assign them to categories, keep notes independent of the files, and so on and so forth. It's ostensibly designed for creative writers, who want to manage all these things in one big window, rather than having to organize files in the Finder. And, most importantly, if you hit shift-command-F, you're looking at a black screen with yellow text and nothing else.

  It's a slick piece of software, once you get used to the fact that it's not a one window per document kind of user interface.

  I'd buy it, but it costs 100 euros. I can hack TextEdit for 100 euros.

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