If it’s possible to add an integration for words to Drafts, the Drafts developer has added it. Once you’ve finished writing your precious words in Drafts, then you get to decide what to do with them. Maybe these words will end up an email, or an OmniFocus task, or a Ulysses project, or something else entirely. One of the nice things about Drafts is that because you go straight into writing, you don’t even have to have a clear decision about where the text will end up when you start writing.
With Drafts, you can dictate as long as you want to Siri Dictation and it just keeps going. That makes Drafts the starting place for just about any text I write on iPhone or iPad, including these very words.ĭrafts doesn’t just let you type, it also lets you dictate, and through some smart programming, it gets around the usual 45 second Siri Dictation timer.
Instead, when you open the app, you get a blinking cursor and a blank screen. Unlike any other text app, Drafts doesn’t require you to open a new file, create a new email, or do any other process before you start writing. For the rest of you, let me explain a bit further.ĭrafts is an iOS app that does two things remarkably well: For some of you, that’s all you need to hear.
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Check out Drafts.ĭrafts, one of my favorite utilities for the iPhone just got a big update to version 5.
Instead, he just keeps making drafts better and better and better. Because the developer has regular income, he doesn’t have to move on to the next app every six months. Drafts is the poster child for the subscription model done right. I have a separate post and video in the works explaining how I use this to save client call notes from Drafts to the client file with zero work on my part.Įvery time I write about subscription apps, I get a certain amount of email griping with the business model. Do you see where I’m going with this? If not, stay tuned. This feature, which I am pretty sure exists because Greg Pierce wanted to get me off his back about it, lets you save a draft with a set of tags that Hazel can recognize and process. Now, if you apply a tag in Drafts and then create an action to save the draft as a file, you can have it convert the Drafts tags into Apple Finder tags. My favorite feature is the addition of Apple Finder tag support. I spend so much time writing in Drafts (and so little time in Apple Notes). This gives you one more way to add text to your Drafts. Nevertheless, Drafts uses them as best as possible, given these limitations, and the ability to dive into specific areas of my Drafts is much appreciated.Īdditionally, the new version incorporates Apple’s new Scribble features on the iPad. There are inherent limits with widgets with their lack of interaction.
I stack it with my Shortcuts widget and jump between them throughout the day. I’ve been using the grid formatted widget on my home screen. With a grid, you can get quick access to specific Drafts and workspaces. There are two general formats: grids and lists. Many of the new features in Drafts 22 (yes, 22) released with iOS 14 reflect what Drafts has become. Drafts has evolved over the years, and so has my usage of it. I now use the app not only to write text but also to store it. In the past year, however, my relationship with Drafts has changed. It’s clean, it supports TextExpander (even on iPhone and iPad), and it is so powerful under the hood. The idea of easy text capture and action immediately resonated with me, and anything I write that isn’t part of a big research project starts life in Drafts. I’ve been using Drafts since the day it launched.
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