Scrivener is terrific: <a href="http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html</a>. I've written book-length stuff in Emacs/LaTeX before, and I might go back to that for typesetting, but I'd write in Scrivener.
This is really cool. There are a lot of areas where the state of the art really is Word and Excel. For some use cases, a horizontal application is perfectly adequate. However, all the rest are opportunities for enterprising hackers.
Pretty cool. I do have to say that I prefer LaTeX though. If you're not into writing LaTeX you may want to try LyX (<a href="http://www.lyx.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.lyx.org/</a>). It's a WYSIWYM LaTeX editor for Windows and UNIX-like (including OS X).<p>Heh, although when I say "Ulysses" out loud it makes me think "useless."
Ok so after I decided that it was interesting and cool, my first thought was, "What's the emacs-mode for Ulysses?". I couldn't find one so it looks like I may have to actually download and install it. Anyone know of similar emacs or vim modes for writing?
Writeroom is pretty great too.<p><a href="http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom" rel="nofollow">http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom</a>
Do I understand well : is this something similar to what would be a good GUI for reStructuredText ? (I don't have OS X anymore to try it, unfortunately)