Most likely, your sheets in Ulysses will contain more than just text. For example, you’ll add images, attach notes, or create a writing goal. In Ulysses, the dashboard lets you quickly access everything relevant to your text. 

The Dashboard on Mac

To open the dashboard, click the gauge icon on the toolbar or hit the shortcut ⌘4 (command-4). The dashboard features various views that gather available information with a certain focus.

In the dashboard, you’ll find the Overview, which summarizes the most important information the dashboard offers, including your writing progress, the outline of your text, the creation and modification dates of the sheet, and more. You can also edit and add keywords here. Once you have published your sheet as a blog post, the publishing widget will also appear in this view. It’ll display your blog’s name, the publishing status of the post (Draft, Published, Scheduled), and the last upload date.

With various counters, such as words, paragraphs, and pages, as well as estimated reading times, the Progress view enables you to determine the length of your text. Via the bullseye icons, you can also set a writing goal for your sheet, e.g., “at most 500 words”, and track your progress towards achieving it. Learn more about goals in this guide.

In the Outline view, you can quickly check your text’s structure, as it lists all of your headings in a hierarchical order. But that’s not all: if there are bookmarks, annotations, links and footnotes in your text, they’ll be listed here as well. You can navigate directly to any element to edit it with a double-click.

You’ll see a list of your sheet’s images and videos in the Attachments view. If you want to attach an image that doesn’t belong in the text for further reference, you can do so here.

The Annotations view gathers all kinds of inline annotations in your text, such as comments, deletions, and marked text passages. Moreover, you can attach notes to a sheet from here.

Via the Suggestions button, you can access Ulysses’ advanced text check. Click Check Text to enable this feature. It will then analyze your text and provide informed suggestions in categories such as capitalization, punctuation, semantics, redundancy, typography, and style. This view features a dedicated color scheme that highlights comments and suggestions to make the revision task easier for you. Please see this guide for more information about Ulysses' Revision Mode.
 

Set Your Preferences

You can customize most of the dashboard’s views according to your needs. That is, you can collapse sections by clicking the arrow next to them. To hide certain sections completely, click the gear icon at the bottom right and uncheck the corresponding boxes.
 

This option is available for the overview as well as for progress, outline, and suggestions.
 

The Dashboard on iPad

To open the dashboard, tap the gauge icon on the toolbar. On the iPad, there are four different dashboard views that you can access via the icons located at the top right.

First, there’s an Overview from which you can add keywords and get quick links to all the dashboard's relevant information. The Progress section at the top displays your text statistics. Tap the section for a more detailed view of your text statistics. You can also add a goal from here to monitor your writing progress. Once set, the goal will be displayed in the dashboard as well. Furthermore, you can see a list of all navigable items, such as footnotes or mark your sheet as a favorite or material.

In the Navigation view, you’ll instantly see all headings, media, links and footnotes in your text. You can navigate to each element directly from the dashboard.

The Attachments view allows you to see, edit and attach images to a sheet. To delete an attached image, touch and hold it, then select Remove.

Last but not least, there is the Annotations view. Here you can see your annotations and attached notes at a glance. Tap a note to edit it or attach a new one via the button at the bottom of this view.

The Dashboard on iPhone

Just like on a Mac or iPad, you can quickly access the dashboard via the gauge icon, which you’ll find at the bottom of the editor. 

Tap the dashboard icon to quickly access the Overview. Just like on iPad, you can see the sheet's statistics and goal from here. Tap the respective section to add a keyword, attach a note or image, mark the sheet as a favorite or material sheet, access the text check and more.

As soon as you use additional text elements, the display in the editor expands. 

For example, if you add a heading, the Outline icon appears. If you open the view and tap on a heading, it will navigate directly to its position in the text. If you attach an image, the Attachment icon appears. Tap it to view the image attachments or add a new one. Have you added annotations or notes to your sheet? You can quickly access them by tapping the Annotation icon. Swipe any view up to expand it or down to close it.

Video: Introducing the Dashboard

In the following video, you'll learn everything about Ulysses' dashboard: