{"id":26,"date":"2017-11-01T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timingapp.com\/blog\/ulysses-timing-integration-giveaway"},"modified":"2025-07-22T10:54:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:54:51","slug":"ulysses-timing-integration-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timingapp.com\/blog\/ulysses-timing-integration-giveaway\/","title":{"rendered":"Track your writing time with Ulysses and Timing \u2014 your chance to win a Ulysses subscription!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you write? Whether you\u2019re a professional writer or just enjoy writing as a hobby in your spare time \u2014 if you write a lot, you should have a look at Ulysses, the writing app for Mac, iPhone and iPad<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The app is popular among freelance writers, bloggers and novelists alike and has even been awarded with an Apple Design Award in 2016!<\/p>\n

And with Ulysses 12 and Timing 2.2.1, we joined forces with the Ulysses team for much tighter integration between the apps, allowing for detailed tracking of your writing time.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read on for more details on Ulysses and the integration, as well as the chance to win one of five one-year subscriptions for Ulysses!<\/p>\n

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Ulysses is both a powerful tool for managing your texts and a focused editor that lets you concentrate on getting your words down. You work in a beautiful, distraction-free environment. Ulysses\u2019 library lets you organize your writing according to your needs, be it a novel, a collection of articles, or a diary. You can organize your texts with filters and keywords, you can set yourself writing goals, and much more.<\/p>\n

Ulysses\u2019 export function is very capable \u2014 the app lets you easily export to a host of standard formats such DOCX, PDF and ePUB. Also, you can upload your texts directly to a WordPress blog complete with images and tags with just a few clicks.<\/p>\n

Ulysses works on Mac, iPhone, and iPad and syncs seamlessly. That way, you can have all your writings always at hand.<\/p>\n

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As you can imagine, it\u2019s possible to spend a lot<\/em> of time in Ulysses. Thanks to the integration with Timing, you can find out how exactly that time was distributed across all your writing projects.<\/p>\n

Ulysses lets you organize your writing projects into hierarchical groups; the writing itself is done on so-called sheets (sheets are somehow equivalent to documents) inside those groups. And with Ulysses 12 and Timing 2.2.1, we are bringing sheet-level automatic time tracking to Ulysses.<\/p>\n

From now on, Timing will show you exactly how much time you spent in each Ulysses sheet as well as the groups that enclose it. That lets you easily get an overview of how much time you spent working on a particular chapter or even the whole book!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Imagine you are working on a novel and have set up the project similar to David Hewson\u2019s group structure<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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You\u2019ve got a top-level group called \u201cMy Writing Project\u201d, which contains two sub-groups \u201cManuscript\u201d and \u201cManagement\u201d. The first group contains your actual writing, whereas the second group contains things like notes or descriptions of characters.<\/p>\n

Apart from these groups, you might have other writings in Ulysses, such as reports, shopping lists or poetry. When tracking time, you don\u2019t want all of that to count towards the same \u201ctime bucket\u201d. What\u2019s more, you may want to track the actual writing and your notes separately. Fortunately, Timing can do all this for you. Open up Timing and switch to the \u201cReview\u201d section, where you can create your own projects. For instance, I\u2019ve set up a simple \u201cWriting Project\u201d here:<\/p>\n

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It has three subgroups: \u201cWeb Research\u201d, \u201cWriting\u201d and \u201cCharacter Descriptions\u201d. I\u2019d like to track my usage of Safari into \u201cWeb Research\u201d, working in my Manuscript group into \u201cWriting\u201d and working in the \u201cCharacters\u201d group into \u201cCharacter Descriptions\u201d.<\/p>\n

You can automatically categorize activities by creating rules for them. For instance, if you want to consider all surfing activities in Safari as \u201cWeb Research\u201d, select the \u201cAll Activities\u201d project, hold the \u2325<\/strong> (alt\/option) key and drag Safari from the Applications card onto \u201cWeb Research\u201d. Now, all surfing in Safari will automatically be counted towards that project.<\/p>\n

Similarly, if you are editing a sheet in Ulysses like this:<\/p>\n

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That time will be tracked in Timing as \u201ciCloud \u25b8 My Writing Project \u25b8 Manuscript \u25b8 The Sassafras\u201d. So, to assign all writing time in the \u201cManuscript\u201d group to the \u201cWriting\u201d project, simply drag the \u201cManuscript\u201d entry from the \u201cPaths\u201d card and drag it (while holding the \u2325<\/strong> key) onto \u201cWriting\u201d:<\/p>\n

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Finally, you can do the same for Character Descriptions by dragging the path \u201cCharacters\u201d on the activity. Please note that for the paths to show up in Timing, you first need to create and open at least one sheet in the groups to let Timing pick up the paths.<\/p>\n

From now on, every time you work in these groups, Timing will track the activity and add it to your projects, helping you find out how much time you spent writing in a group or on a sheet. That way, you know exactly how much time you spent writing that book or even a particular chapter!<\/p>\n

Get Ulysses<\/h2>\n

Ulysses can be downloaded for free on the App Store<\/a> and the Mac App Store<\/a>. After a 14-day trial period, a subscription is required to unlock the app on all devices. The subscription costs $4.99 monthly or $39.99 yearly. Students can use Ulysses at $11.99 per six months.<\/p>\n

In addition, both Ulysses and<\/em> Timing are part of Setapp, the service that gives you access than more than 100 apps<\/a> for just $9.99 per month! You can sign up today<\/a> to get access to all these apps (and others like Aeon Timeline, which also integrates with Ulysses) immediately.<\/p>\n

Your chance: Win a Ulysses subscription!<\/h2>\n

In addition to the new integration between Timing and Ulysses, we have partnered with the Ulysses team to give away a total of five one-year subscriptions for Ulysses!
\nSimply perform one or more of the actions below before Friday, Nov 10th, 2017<\/strong>, to enter into the giveaway.<\/del>
\nThe giveaway has ended now. Congratulations to the winners:<\/p>\n