Kept hearing about a writing site called Ellipsus so tried it out and I almost love it, but perhaps due to using a tablet, it has a few infuriating blips. It defaults to a serif font and the tiny serifs are too much. I just want to select all and change font.

I do that and it keeps all the text selected, and invariably adds double line spacing which doesn’t register in the settings so I can’t change it back easily.

Also I can barely select all after the first time. I press and hold as usual, and it might deign to appear once in a while. I like the themes for a different background colour. Dark blue is nice, but tbh not so far from plain black in google docs, I guess.

#software #mobile #tablet #ellipsus

#Ellipsus does now – finally! – allow you to save a copy of your file as docx to your phone/computer.

I still don't see how you can depend on it because all the writing still must be done in the browser while being online. I do not like that, at all.

(I'm also still suspicious of Ellipsus' intents. How are they making money? My guess still is "by selling people's texts to AI".)

The only reason I'm not already using ellipsus.com is the fact that it only works when you have an internet connection. I'm currently using Obsidian, which is far from optimal for writing stories, yet it's local first philosophy combined with relatively easy online sync is what keeps me using it.

With Obsidian, I know that even on that car ride, even on that spotty or nonexistent Wi-Fi network, I'll still be able to not only write but also read all of my writings. This is why I never used stuff like Google Docs either. Sure, it has some offline functionality, but only for the stuff you explicitly mark.

Ideally, Ellipsus would have an app or PWA which works offline and lets you take specific items or your whole library with you so that you can edit and read and edit. Then it all syncs when you get reconnected. I can see that this is a tall ask, though. This stuff is hard.

How easy is it to move your google docs files to #ellipsus ? Asking as an absolute tech noob.

I have whole books that would need to be moved away from docs, and need a place to keep them and write them (Also hoping they haven't been scraped yet...).

Also noticed they don't have an app yet.
Is that coming or...?

#Ellipsus is kinda extremely smarmy. I'm just waiting for them to drop the facade and see what their sinister deal is.

They're now cheering on people to do NaNoWriMo but OF COURSE they're not SPONSORING it because they're anti AI.

My prediction is that they're actually very much pro AI. What reason is there that they still don't have a function that lets you save your doc to your device? "We'll implement that soon" WHY. Why not now. Why do you want to have people's writing in your cloud?

Alternativa a Google docs (aún en fase beta)
https://ellipsus.com/

#ellipsus

Since I've finally won over my writer's block I've started writing using Ellipsus. I like the themes and the integration with AO3, it's nice to have something not smothered with AI garbage in a writing space.

#ellipsus #writing #fanfiction #ao3

If you're looking for a #writing alternative to cloud services, #ellipsus is pretty great. They are vehemently against Generative AI and have a "If it's legal, you can write it" content policy.

It is making improvements daily: https://ellipsus.com/

I have enjoyed working with it. :D