I Finally Have a Writing Rig That I’m Proud Of!



It’s been a long, long time coming. Here’s what I finally have working.

• I write everything in Ulysses
  – It uses iCloud to sync between iOS and Mac
  – It stores everything locally on my Mac
• Everything is stored on my Mac in a single place
  – I’ve spent years pulling all my writing into a single location
  – Everything is in simple Markdown
  – Everything is in a standard
  – At night, I run a wordcount script to see how much I’ve written
• I commit two two places every night
  – One commit sends my entire giant library to a git backup
  – A different commit shares only featured content to git and a website
• I can publish my content from Ulysses to my online blogs
• Once online, those online blogs all have RSS feeds
• I have a single RSS feed for combining everything together

There are some quirks, like the fact that using full Markdown means I can’t drag and drop images into my posts in all situations. Or the fact that my RSS is held together by duct tape and chicken wire. But I finally did it. I can write, store, back up, publish, aggregate, and share the aggregated feed. It all works.

Ok, back to work.