I've been poking around my new toys (Daedalus, Stapler, and Ulysses) and have been reading up on the forum. I thought I'd post my first impressions.
#Top-Down Thoughts
1. So far I like everything ... a lot.
1. I see Stapler and Daedalus becoming great friends via iCloud and being the best desktop/mobile pairing for lightweight, plain text notes that may or may not include Markdown.
1. I see Ulysses as being a different beast altogether, and I'm hoping that iOS5 will deliver the RTF control that seems to be the missing piece for Ulysses Mobile. I think Ulysses needs a mobile friend, also with syncing via iCloud, and I wouldn't bloat up DT to achieve this.
1. I see Stapler benefiting from Lion's full-screen mode, ala Byword, but with support for the "stack" of notes paradigm of Stapler and Daedalus. You could even use Lion's swipes to go from note to note.
#Bottom-Up Thoughts and Questions
1. DT - The settings for the editor only appear when viewing or editing a specific page, even though these settings are global. I think a settings button, like the little gear that is often used, should be available at all times, and allow access to all global settings.
1. DT - I can't figure out how to change sync settings once I've imported or synced a stack. A forum post indicated that this is possible, but it could be more obvious. For instance, hitting the sync button could pop up two buttons; "sync" and "sync settings" (like the little popup that appears when you go to delete an item, but with two choices).

Keep up the excellent work. I hope to use these tools for lightweight work and as a hobby. My first real use for DT will be as a diary on an upcoming trip to Italy. I think it will be the perfect companion.

DT - The settings for the editor only appear when viewing or editing a specific page, even though these settings are global. I think a settings button, like the little gear that is often used, should be available at all times, and allow access to all global settings.

Hm, I know what you mean, though I have to disagree here. TextExpander, Spellcheck and Button Row are editor-only and wouldn't make any sense if they were available from stack overview, for example. However, the cosmetic settings, such as color, type/size probably have more effect on the way you write than on the rest of the app, so they also need to be accessible from within the editor.

This means that we'd either have to do TWO settings in the editor or -- and that's what we opted for -- ONLY have settings in the editor and a less cluttered interface throughout the app. As we see it, most of the settings are one-timers anyway, except for maybe spellcheck and TE as well as dark-mode (when writing!), so having a global settings button, always visible in all the views, just for changing a persistent setting such as font/color, didn't seem such a good idea. :)

Hope I make sense.

Hey, did you say "TextExpander?" Did you leak a feature for the next release, or does it not show up if TE isn't installed? I haven't purchased it yet, but would in a heartbeat if the integration exists.

I downloaded DT some time ago, but didn't use it. I must have deleted the pre-installed stacks, because I have only what I've created.

I'm running into more frustrations, so is there someplace where I can look at the text files that made up the stacks?

Otherwise, my new questions are:

TextExpander - It's now installed with my snippets downloaded form Dropbox. I quite both applications, started TE, then started DT. I see no place to configure DT to use TE. I thought it might just work, so I tried some abbreviations. "ddate" worked, but none of the others did. What do I need to do?

Keyboard row - I smudged across the "remove" button while customizing a toprow key. How do I add keys back?

My apologies for the questions, but I'm not on the DT wavelength yet, and the deleted stacks seem to be a mandatory item.

Thanks again for all your help. I stumbled across the "restore" feature after posting and it worked nicely.

TE is now working (I mistook the "share snippets" feature for the LAN sharing and left it off).

The last issue is the keyboard row. When I tap and hold a key on the keyboard row, I see the popup to customize that key, but don't see a plus sign on the keyboard row itself. My eyes are substandard and I miss things (as if you haven't noticed that :) but I swear nothing appears on the keyboard row. Where on the row should I be looking? The plus icon on the popup adds an entry to the popup list, but what I'm talking about is adding and removing keys on the keyboard.

EDIT: As soon as I posted this I had a thought and figured it out. **Press and hold a key, then hit "Edit" on the popup**. The plus signs aren't there until you hit edit. I'm now up and running. No more questions! Thanks.