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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/34488
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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/34488
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Ulysses does not support placeholders directly and there are no simple shortcuts that would create a placeholder.

You would have to use your own implementation. For things to keep track of when using such a custom method have a look at my answer to the question [What should I do when I am stuck on names during freewriting?](https://writing.stackexchange.com/a/34129/23159) Depending on your language and your writing style you might get problems if you have for example nicknames or longer versions of a name and forget to change them. Or you could have problems with grammar rules.

[Here](https://ulyssesapp.com/features/table) you can see a list of features that Ulysses supports. The ones that might be useful for you would probably be to annotate your text with keywords and the classical Search&Replace.

[Here is a list of available shortcuts.](https://ulyssesapp.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Ulysses-for-Mac-Shortcuts.pdf)

To read more about keywords take a look at [this article](https://ulyssesapp.com/blog/2018/02/attachments-tips/). Basically this feature allows you to add meta data to your work so that you could annotate the text with a special keyword indicating for example "Prog\_First\_Name\_Missing". As keywords are reusable this should be quite easy and fast to do once you've got the hang of it. To add a keyword you can press "⇑ ⌘ K".

For Search&Replace you can press "⌥⌘F".

Original score: 3