Recently, I created a shortcut for the Club MacStories Discord as part of the Automation Academy. If you’re not a member, I highly recommend doing so. This shortcut was in response to the lat…

Terminology is an extensible dictionary-thesaurus and reference app.

Documentation for Drafts app, a quick-capture note taking app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch.

John: The process of picking the MacStories Selects awards is simple. During the past year as we used and reviewed hundreds of apps, Federico, Ryan, and I kept a shared note in Apple Notes with a list of the apps that struck us as potential candidates for one of our 2019 awards. Not long ago,

Template Basics Drafts actions consist of “steps.” Action steps are available for a wide range of functions and services: Sending messages, mail, saving files, and much more. Regardless of the purpose of the step, any step that output information has some fields that allow you to control what text the step uses, and (with a few minor exceptions) use templates to dynamically generate that text. If you have poked around in the action editor and wondered what some of those [[title]] and [[body]] ...

Example actions and other extensions for Drafts, the quick-capture notes app.

I hope to properly maintain a public list of my keyboard shortcuts in Drafts. - draftcuts.md

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Example actions and other extensions for Drafts, the quick-capture notes app.

Example actions and other extensions for Drafts, the quick-capture notes app.

Documentation for Drafts app, a quick-capture note taking app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch.

Show the "Tasks in Todoist" example Drafts action at work creating multiple tasks in Todoist with one tap. To get the action, and more examples of working…

App Store REST API Documentation URL Scheme: todoist:// URL Scheme Documentation Todoist is a task management platform. Drafts supports direct integration with Todoist via a number of methods, including those listed below. Todoist Share Extension and URL actions If you have the Todoist app installed on the device, you can take advantage of integration methods provided by the app. These include an iOS Share extension for quick add of individual tasks, and URL schemes which can open the app...

Setup: Drafts on iOS with Working Copy NOTE: This does not cover git basics! NOTE: I do own the subscriptions both to Draft and Working Copy. It is hard from me to evaluate if both are necessary. But I would strongly suggest your support of these two amazing developers and their great applications. Versions: Drafts: latest / v24.1 Working Copy: latest / v4.4.7 Drafts File Structure Drafts has, in addition to its local storage, an iCloud folder. As in my setup with iOS and macOS de...

Example actions and other extensions for Drafts, the quick-capture notes app.

Example actions and other extensions for Drafts, the quick-capture notes app.

A place to discuss Drafts, get help with actions, and share ideas,

In iOS 15 (and macOS 12), Shortcuts added file actions which make it easy to work with files and folders. Combined with Drafts extensive ability to query your drafts, it is easy to create publishing shortcuts - so we thought we’d provide a basic example that might be useful as a starting point for some of your own workflows. The “Publish Workspace” example shortcut does the following: Prompts you to select one of your Drafts workspaces. Fetches drafts in the inbox of that workspace. Prompts y...

I just made an action that allows me to create multiple drafts with a predefined template from a single action. Action In the current draft you can only use the action in the draft that is the template, but you can easily modify it to prompt you for a template to choose or anything. I use it by calling it from other actions, so that suits me very well. Hope it can help some of you be more productive

Documentation for Drafts app, a quick-capture note taking app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch.

Documentation for Drafts app, a quick-capture note taking app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch.

In our ongoing series of interviews with developers and creators in the Apple community, I had the chance to talk with Greg Pierce, founder of Agile Tortoise. Greg makes some of our favorite iOS apps here at MacStories, namely Drafts and Terminology. Greg is also the man behind x-callback-url, an inter-app communication spec that I’ve

Obsidian Website URL Scheme: obsidian:// URL Scheme Documentation Disclaimer: We are not Obsidian experts! This guide is meant to get people started with the basics of using Drafts with Obsidian. Feel free to expand on these ideas, or let us know if we’ve missed something important. Obsidian is a popular personal knowledge management application that focuses on organizing and cross-linking Markdown files. Drafts works nicely as a capture front-end for Obsidian. This article covers met...

One of my favorite things about Drafts is its quick adoption of the new OS features that come year-over-year. Not only are they quickly adopted, but they are well implemented, carefully considered, and provide increased capability for both existing and new users alike. This year with the release of iOS 13, iPadOS 13, and macOS

With the introduction of the TADpoLe library, I’m able to share an action via the ThoughtAsylum Drafts action group that I think a lot of people who write for the web may find useful. It’s a special web preview action that incorporates a number of features that I think make it pretty special. Welcome to my explanation of the “Exploded Markdown Preview”.