Also, I wish Ulysses will get sophisticated import. It would be very useful to be able to parse a multimarkdown document and have it automatically split into separate documents.

Good luck!

[...] There’s just no sane way to implement iCloud sync and Versions, and we can’t make Ulysses’ documents accessible for e.g. Daedalus, because of how we implemented tabs, filters and collections and all of that.

And then there are the dead ends: features that cause some problems but can’t be cut, because users rely on them. Also new ideas and fully legit requests we can’t fulfill, because of the limits of our current implementation.[ ...]

Perhaps you can offer an easy way to sync a plain text version of a document with dropbox: think one check box that reads: “Sync this to dropbox as plain text”, so that we can open it in Daedalus, edit, and sync back.

If none of these are sanely possible, perhaps, it’s time for you guys to fundamentally change Ulysses’s project format, think of it as a new beginning for the future of Ulysses.

[...] There’s just no sane way to implement iCloud sync and Versions, and we can’t make Ulysses’ documents accessible for e.g. Daedalus, because of how we implemented tabs, filters and collections and all of that.

And then there are the dead ends: features that cause some problems but can’t be cut, because users rely on them. Also new ideas and fully legit requests we can’t fulfill, because of the limits of our current implementation.[ ...]

Perhaps you can offer an easy way to sync a plain text version of a document with dropbox: think one check box that reads: “Sync this to dropbox as plain text”, so that we can open it in Daedalus, edit, and sync back.

As for that “one reader” line: I have been brought up with the notion that whenever *you* like something, somebody else is also going to like it. It’s just common sense, we are no islands. So there is always a “need” for your stuff, at least in some sense.

Somebody out there is actually waiting for what you come up with, even if he/she doesn’t know it yet.

That’s also why a lot of crap gets bought, you know? ;)

Your “If there’s just a single customer out there …” quote reminded me of another quote I once read in an interview of an author, and that I have tried to keep in mind when I write myself: that if he could write one reader’s favorite book, then it has all ben worth it. A bit exaggerated I guess, in both cases, but still quite true. You cannot please everyone, and rather than creating something that lots of people kind of like, I’d rather write something that some people really love. If then the cost is that some really don’t get it, then so be it.

Your last lines filled me with anticipation, but also made me slightly nervous…
But I guess I should trust you by now.

Take care, Niklas