With iPhone support, Ulysses could be a Keeper

I've written about Ulysses in the past right when it came out a few years ago, but it has never stuck in my workflow. It was a beautiful app, but it hadn't yet matured to the point of trusting it. With the 2.5 update, Ulysses is now available for Mac and as a universal iOS app.

I'm not going to go into MacStories-length detail into the application, but the gorgeous writing experience, fast sync, automatic backups, and export options have made me decide to give a Ulysses-based blogging workflow a shot. And that means adapting the Soundsmitten Blog Processor workflow.

I didn't really give Brett Terpstra's TextBundle file format much thought when he introduced it, but I think it might become the vehicle of transmission for my posts to the server. I'll most likely be moving the Blog Processor scripts off my Mac and onto the server, and have them run every minute or so. That way, I'll be able to post to the server from iOS by exporting a TextBundle file from Ulysses into Transmit.

In my spare time outside of Apple stuff (which isn't very much!), I'll make some tweaks to the workflow. There's a possibility that I won't be using JavaScript for this one, as there are some shiny new languages that I've been dying to learn.