Ulysses adds Find Sheet, Find Group actions for Shortcuts; Substack support »

Ulysses has expanded their App Intents support in version 39 with Find, Import File, and Search actions – plus support for Spotlight on Mac.

Ulysses, my blogging app of choice, has updated to version 39 with the following changes:

  • Liquid Glass support
  • Menus reworked
  • Revision Mode is just another tab
  • Editor Focus is now “Hide Interface”
  • Swipe Gestures
  • Swipe Actions
  • Improved keyboard navigation
  • Share/import projects
  • Copy for Substack and Basecamp
  • Theming
  • App Intents
  • Other improvements
  • Buxgfixes

Naturally, I want to highlight the section on their new Shortcuts actions and Spotlight for Mac support in particular:

App Intents

We revamped our integration with Spotlight and the Shortcuts app. On macOS 26, actions can now be triggered directly from Spotlight. New actions include:

“Find Sheet” and “Find Group”, with configurable filters.

“Import File”, to convert any given text file into a sheet.

“Search in Ulysses”, to open the in-app search with a pre-defined search term.

Also:

Copy for Substack and Basecamp

You can now copy your texts for use on Substack and Basecamp.

Most formatting is supported; some limitations apply (images won’t work).

On Substack, we even support buttons (via raw source) and Spotify previews (via text links).

This will be good for my newsletter, which I don’t want to write within the Substack browser – I prefer a dedicated editor experience like Ulysses.

Check out the full page of Release Notes for Ulysses and get Ulysses from the App Store.

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