Export
Once you are done, you may want to share your writing with the world. You can email a PDF or save it to iCloud. You can also open a DOCX file in Microsoft Word or Pages or publish your text on your blog.
To export the current editor on Mac, click the Export button (square with arrow up) or use the shortcut ⇧⌘P. On iPad/iPhone, open the editor menu via the circled ellipsis and tap Export.
Share Your Work
The Share icon (iPad and iPhone) and the arrow next to the Export button (Mac) in the export preview opens a menu with all available options. The options will differ depending on the chosen output and the apps installed on your device.
If you would like to find out more about exporting, take a look at our Export guide.
360 Degree Semantics
Ulysses can output your writing to various standard formats, such as Plain and Rich Text, DOCX, HTML, ePub and even PDF. It does so by translating your plain text input based on the definition of the minimal markup. Here’s an example…
Let’s assume you want to emphasize a text passage. Select the word that you want to emphasize, and in the markup bar that appears at the bottom of the editor, click on Emphasis (Mac). On iPhone and iPad, select the word, tap the A| button above the virtual keyboard and select Emphasis. You'll notice the extra characters that were entered around the word.
In its own “plain text language,” you have just told Ulysses that this passage should be emphasized. Now Ulysses knows, and when you export your text to, say, a PDF, Ulysses will translate this emphasized passage into what a PDF will understand and display. In this case, it will format your emphasized passage as italicized text.
If you export to HTML instead, Ulysses will translate the emphasized passage to semantically correct <em>.
The advantage of this should be obvious by now: Instead of worrying about how your output looks, you can concentrate on what your content is supposed to mean. This may be frightening initially, but trust us, it’s not.
Styles
In the export preview, there’s an option to switch between various export styles. Each style offers a predefined set of conversion rules. Take “Business,” a style available for both PDF and DOCX, as an example:
- Heading 1: Helvetica Neue, 45pt
- Body text: Baskerville, 12pt
- Emphasis: Italic
- Comments: Delete
Ulysses features several built-in styles for each exporter, and you can switch between them on the fly. if you're longing for a different look, visit our Styles & Themes website, where you can find a variety of styles created by the Ulysses community.
On Mac, you can even create your own style. You can find out exactly how to do this in our guide Customize an Export Style.
Export Multiple Sheets
Ulysses aims to let you write whole books. And for these, you’ll probably need more than just a single sheet of content. To export multiple sheets, you can switch the sheet list to a special view. This allows you to select as many sheets as you want and then perform different actions, one of which is export. You can also export a whole group. Check out our Export guide to learn more about this.
Feed Your Blogs
Are you a blogger? With Ulysses, you can publish your texts directly on various platforms, complete with images, links, tags, and other metadata.
For example, Ulysses can interpret keywords as blog categories or tags; it will turn a note attachment into an excerpt; you can attach a photograph to a sheet to make it your blogpost’s featured image. Tiresome copy-pasting to your blogging platform’s CMS is a thing of the past.
Of course, you can review your metadata before publishing and make adjustments if needed. Published texts will receive a tiny paper plane in the sheet list as an indicator, and you can check their status in the dashboard.
The publishing feature works with WordPress, Ghost, Micro.blog and Medium. To get started, all you’ve got to do is connect your blogging accounts with Ulysses.