Ulysses vs. Scrivener.

Hi all.

I decided to post in Mac, because that's where I'll primarily be working. But I know both of these apps are accessible on iOS as well, so I'd appreciate anything about that experience as well that might help me make a decision.

I hear good things about both Ulysses and Scrivener. I want to make a project that's a series of blog posts, or possibly an e-book. I know both can do that as well. My thought was to use Scrivener, but Ulysses has a lot of interesting features and I know a friend has used it for academic papers.

My project is going to be about the lyre, specifically the Anglo-Saxon lyre. However, I intend to include examples of modern playing where lyres still exist, mostly from Africa. So here is why I thought to use Scrivener.

Suppose I comment on a specific lyre from Africa. I include a link to playing, talk about tuning, technique, whatever I can dig up on it. later I find something new. Or maybe I'm not sure where it will fit in the text.

As I understand it, Scrivener let's you work in blocks, and this is why I thought to use it. So if I'm talking about the litungu of the Luhya, I can have that as a block of text or notes or whatever. Then as I put it together, I just go,that block, put it next, instead of having it as a separate file, opening it, selecting the text, and pasting it. But maybe you can also do this in Ulysses?

My reasoning is that I can just start work anywhere, e.g. gather info and videos on a specific lyre, instead of writing text and then going, here is where I want to talk about this lyre, pausing and finding stuff on it, writing that, and so on. Of course I could just do this normally, but the way I'd work at least would involve putting information in separate files. So I thought having some way that would be more organized, particularly if I want to work on both Mac and iOS, might be useful.

Scrivener seems like it would do this, because as I understand it, at least one way you can use it is writing things in sections/blocks of text, and then you can rearrange those blocks as chunks of text. I have no idea how Ulysses handles that kind of thing. I'm sure somebody here does though. So I'd be interested in people's thoughts, particularly if you've used both programs.