Description of App
Drafts is where text starts. Quickly capture text and send it almost anywhere!
Drafts turns text into action with almost limitless possibilities – it’s a quick notebook, handy editor, and writing automation tool, all in one. Capture all of your text in Drafts and send it to other apps without the extra taps. Just open it and start typing!
**Drafts is a multi-award winner!**
- App of the Day, TIME Magazine’s Best Apps
- MacStories “Reader’s Choice Award”
## WHY YOU’LL LOVE DRAFTS ##
CAPTURE EVERYWHERE:
Drafts opens to a new page with the keyboard ready — just waiting for your words. Alternatively, go hands-free with dictation.
Drafts helps you write ideas down before you can forget them so and they’ll always be there, ready and waiting. Capture on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, and Drafts’ fast sync will make your text available everywhere.
USE YOUR WORDS:
Drafts is a jumping-off point for text — use actions to copy it, share it, or deep-link into other apps and services. Compose a tweet, draft a message, create a file in Dropbox, send a task off to Reminders – Drafts works with tons of your favorite apps and services.
REMEMBER IT NOW – OR LATER:
New entries go into the Inbox. Once there, you can Tag them for organization, Flag them for importance, or Archive them for long-term storage.
TAKE TEXT TO A NEW LEVEL:
Customize Drafts to look and work the way you want with tons of interface adjustments — custom fonts and control over spacing, line height, and margins.
Use the customizable buttons above the keyboard to convert, manipulate, and transform your writing quickly.
Using Drafts as a global inbox for all of your text? Process everything quickly using unique features like Link Mode, Arrange Mode, and text manipulation actions.
LEVERAGE THE POWER OF YOUR WRIST COMPUTER:
Use your Apple Watch to quickly capture text using nothing more than your voice — and your ideas will be waiting on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac ready to be fleshed out.
GETTING WORDS DOWN HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER:
Drafts opens lightning fast and with support for capture via Siri, the widget, share extension, file import, and dictation - Drafts is like post-its updated for the smartphone era.
## JOIN THE COMMUNITY ##
Check out our Directory (actions.getdrafts.com) for ready-to-use actions and themes. Join the Drafts Community (forums.getdrafts.com) to get help, integration guides, and a regular flow of tips & tricks.
## DRAFTS PRO ##
Drafts is always free to use, but you can get more out of Drafts with a Drafts Pro subscription:
• Create and Edit Actions
• Themes and Icons - suit the experience to your tastes with themes, custom app icons, and more
• Workspaces - Apply preferred tag, query, and sort settings for your drafts list with Workspaces
• Extra widgets and better share extension options
• Enhanced Automation
We are always working hard to expand the capabilities of Drafts and keep it up-to-date with the latest technologies. Your support helps keep the app growing – thank you to Drafts Pro subscribers!
## SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS ##
• Monthly and annual subscriptions are available
• Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase
• Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is disabled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period
• Automatic renewals will be charged at the same price you were originally charged for the subscription
• Subscriptions can be managed or canceled by going to Account Settings on the App Store after purchase
Have questions? Contact us on Twitter at @draftsapp or email [email protected].
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Version 5.2
Navigation of longer drafts, assign tags after success and more...
#### New
- **Actions now have an "Assign tags" after success setting.** In addition to moving a draft to the archive or trash, after success can now also assign tags - great for marking or filing away drafts automatically when processing them. For example, set the Tweet action to automatically assign the "tweet" tag when run on a draft and you can later easily filter for tweets. [Details](http://getdrafts.com/actions/advancedsettings)
- **In-draft navigation to jump between key marks in longer drafts**. Accessed via the navigate button (down arrow icon) in the upper right (or CMD-\ shortcut). Currently navigation supports jumping to headers in a Markdown draft, projects in a Taskpaper draft, and functions and "// #region Name" region comments in Javascript drafts. [Details](http://getdrafts.com/editor/navigation)
- **Scripting additions to support switching workspaces and action groups**:
- Allows for action setup to load a workspace, and simultaneously switch selected action list and keyboard row.
- Inquiry about and toggle visibility of drafts and action lists:
- `app.isDraftListVisible`, `app.showDraftList()`, `app.hideDraftList()`
- `app.isActionListVisible`, `app.showActionList()`, `app.hideActionList()`
- Load action groups and apply workspaces in script:
- `app.loadActionGroup(group)`, `app.loadKeyboardActionGroup(group)`
- `app.applyWorkspace(workspace)`
- Also Workspace and ActionGroup objects to allow lookup of groups and workspaces.
- More details on [scripting reference site](http://reference.getdrafts.com)
- **Additional URL Actions**
- `/loadActionGroup?name=GROUP-NAME` - loads action group in action list
- `/loadKeyboardActionGroup?name=GROUP-NAME` - loads action group in extended keyboard.
- **"List in Reminders" action step now has a template**. Useful to create one for sending only [[selection]] or passing in values from script or prompt. [Details](http://getdrafts.com/actions/steps/listinreminders)
#### Other Fixes and Changes
- **Fix (Watch):** Improvements to communication between Watch and Phone to address some issues with stuck transfers.
- **Fix (Watch):** Watch app auto-capture from complication did not work if app was already running and open to a view other than the main capture view.
- **Fix:** Some tweaks to Taskpaper syntax.
- **Change:** Do not dismiss any presented views when the new draft creation timeout is fired to avoid loosing unsaved work in actions, etc.
- **Fix:** Moving through action list with up-down arrow keys should scroll items into view when necessary.
- **Fix:** URL action step should ignore "Open in Drafts" option if the URL generated is a non-http(s) URL.
- **Fix:** Opening current list options without making changes could result it "current list options" erroneously displayed in list filter.
- **Fix:** "Insert text" action step now plays nicer with other subsequent action steps.
- **Fix:** Address a case where sync could get stalled in odd timing situations where sync was requested more than once quickly.
- **Fix:** [[draft_open_url]] tag was not working.
- **Change:** Work on some general improvements to syntax highlighting to avoid a few glitches in rendering.
- **Change:** Several improvements to Markdown syntax, including highlighting of horizontal rules and indented code blocks.
- **New:** Add keyboard shortcut preview when managing action groups actions.
- **Change:** Some under-the-hood improvements to Action Directory sharing to support additional features on the web site.
Join the Drafts Community at forums.getdrafts.com for update to date information, tips, tricks and integration guides!
Clipboard Capturing Text Question
Hi,
I just got this app last night, and I'm failing to understand if I can do this and how. I would like to know if one of the actions that come with the app can be turned on and automatically put text I put on the clipboard into the current document until I turn it off. Can this happen and how? Will I have to subscribe to the Pro version to do this? Thanks.
Afraid not
As I said before, iOS can't capture the clipboard in the background like that. You can either use Drafts quick capture which works without prompting but creates an individual draft every time, or the normal drafts share action that lets you append to a draft. I think you have to select it each time, though.
I wonder if the quicknote feature in iOS 15 might be closer to what you're looking for, actually. I haven't used it, though.