Three Apps Running My Publishing Life
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I get asked about my setup more than anything else. So here’s the honest version — not a review, just what’s actually open on my Mac every day.
Ulysses is where everything gets written. Clean, distraction-free, and it publishes directly to Micro.blog and Ghost. I’ve tried a lot of writing apps over the years. This one stays out of the way and lets the writing be the thing. For a content creator working across multiple platforms, it’s the closest thing I have to a workhorse.
OmniFocus 4 is how I keep the whole operation from falling apart. Four content pillars, three platforms, a weekly publishing schedule — without a trusted task manager that would be chaos. OmniFocus is not a simple app. It rewards the time you put into it. I spent a solid month setting mine up properly, and now it runs quietly in the background like a good field hand.
Drafts is the front door. Any idea, any note, any passing thought — it goes into Drafts first. Then it gets sorted: into Ulysses if it’s a post in progress, into OmniFocus if it’s a task, into DEVONthink if it’s research. Drafts doesn’t try to be everything. It just catches what matters before it disappears.
Three apps. One direction.
From the Field — a few links worth your time this week.
1. Ulysses — The Writing App
2. OmniFocus 4 — Task Management for Pros
https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus
3. Drafts — Where Text Starts
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