It has been one of the most requested features this side of italics, and it will finally make its debut with the next version.

Yeah, we’re happy too.

Now here’s one of those features that have been on our drawing board for some time, but for some reason never made it into any previous release: Bookmarks and what I’d like to call “Style-Jumpers”.

What these do is essentially letting you quickly navigate to any paragraph style within the active document. Whenever you mark a paragraph with any of your styles, that paragraph will show up in the Bookmarks menu. Select such an entry, and the text will scroll to that paragraph.

Bookmarks, on the other hand, can be set by either double-clicking in the paragraph bar (finally some good use for that, he), or by selecting the appropriate entry from a context menu. You can delete bookmarks, of course, and you can also drag them around.

So, what might all this be good for?

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Now that the cat is out the bag, I’d like to share with you some of the new features we’re going to introduce with Ulysses 1.7.

First off: Document Trash.

Right now, if you are to delete a document, it’s all or nothing. If it’s deleted, it’s gone, and there’s no bringing it back. So in order to minimize accidental (or unintended) document deletion, you probably had a collection set up, into which you moved your unwanted documents.

This was suboptimal at best, so with 1.7, we’re adding a trash can to the Groups & Collections.

It pretty much works like the Finder’s trash, in that you can either drag’n'drop documents to the bin, or select the corresponding menu item. Trashed documents can neither be opened nor edited, of course, and if you happen to move an open document to the trash, it will be saved, closed, trashed, bingo.

Now… that’s the basics. Here come the fun parts. (more…)