Quickly creating a sheet in Ulysses from your Mac

If you use Ulysses on Mac to manage your blog posts or essays, or simply to manage your ideas, you’re probably wondering how to quickly jot them down in the app without having to open it.

When I have an idea, I need to write it down immediately — otherwise I risk forgetting it 😝. That’s why I went looking for an equivalent of what I do with the Shortcuts app on iOS in order to write the idea quickly and have the sheet created in Ulysses.

You don’t really need to know how to code to do this, but the lines of code shouldn’t scare you either.

First, you’re going to open Script Editor on Mac. Copy the following lines into a new script file:

set theResponse to display dialog "Idée de post ?" default answer "" with icon note buttons {"Cancel", "Continue"} default button "Continue"

if button returned of theResponse is "Continue" then
    open location "ulysses://x-callback-url/new-sheet?text=" & (text returned of theResponse)
end if

Then you need to create an app from this script. I’ve made it easy for you with this GIF:

Now that your app is ready, just search for it using Spotlight:

I’ll leave you the address of the Ulysses x-callback-url technical documentation so you can modify the script to your liking.

I hope you never forget anything again thanks to this tip 😽.