Drafts

What tools are people using to create and edit Actions, i.e., write and edit JavaScript in Drafts? I’m going crazy doing it within Drafts on my iPhone. (Sorry if this question should have been posted in a different portion of the Community. 🥺)

I powered up my Parrot Bluetooth headset and was able to dictate directly into Drafts for at least a paragraph. I did have to click the button on the headset to get it to start. It stopped as soon as I hit a keyboard key, which makes sense.

I use dictation increasingly on iOS and also on Mac desktop — where I have encountered an unexpected behaviour. I can use a wired mic into the MacBook headphone socket and it works fine. My preferred way is to use a bluetooth mic on a headset. It works well with the conventional Apple fn-fn- dictation (which however fades out unpredictably) but the Drafts version of dictation, generally much more reliable, doesn’t appear to recognise a bluetooth mic (I have tried more than one). I have looked ...

Will update- Thank you.

I have an action that copies the Draft contents to the clipboard, adds a tag and archives the Draft. Straightforward - nothing fancy… What I am trying to do, to no avail is: Remove the tag associated with the draft prior to invoking the Action. So the new tag is the only tag on the draft. Currently - the new tag is being set… but the old tag remains. I’ve tried Remove Tag via TAD… Namchuk and Agile Tortoises… None have achieved the desired effect… I do not want a prompt to do this… it’s...

Can you describe a few examples?

I notice that Keysmith hasn’t been mentioned in the community, so I wanted to give it a plug. Note: I’m not connected with the developer; I’m just a Drafts user who likes easy ways to make things easy. Keysmith creates macros by recording what the user is doing, including clicks on web apps and Drafts actions if they are visible in the sidebar. The macros can be assigned hotkeys, or called up by URL (which I use through Alfred). Example use case: I made a macro that creates a new Draft note fro...

Found this thread while I was searching for a similar quick solution. I use Drafts Pro on both iOS and MAC, usually to “brain dumb” lots of things; some to-dos, others are movies to watch, tweets copy, meetings notes…etc. Almost each type of draft have certain actions to it to do something. The pivotal part, is that I rarely create drafts via the Drafts app - usually either Siri/shortcuts or Alfred on Mac or other tools. Having said that, here comes the idea of “How to automate triggering act...

Been using drafts for about a year, and it’s quickly become one of my most used ios apps. Haven’t been able to find the answer, but is there a way to trigger actions based on tags? For example, if I’m reading in safari, and share to drafts and add a tag for omnifocus, could it trigger an appropriate app? Thanks!

Ofcourse, thank you!

I am looking for a way to use the transcribing feature in Drafts (Transcribing Audio & Video - Drafts User Guide) to automatically transcribe audio memos. The dream is to have a process like: Pressing record in Apple Voice Memos → making the recording → pressing stop → Drafts automaticly triggers and starts transcribing the audio. Additionally it would be nice if the finished draft included a link to the audio file in iCloud. I have tied playing around with it in Shortcuts, but can’t really ...

Just to note it might not be necessary to alter the original draft. Perhaps this new text is something you actually want in the draft, but if it is just meta-data you are adding for the benefit of whatever other app or service you are targeting, you might just have the action include that text via templates, and not actually insert it in the original text.

I borrowed an action from the library and rejiggered it to append a link in an existing draft note to the active note. It works, but I want the result to remain as the active note, so I can pass it to another action. Here is my current script: let f = () => { // select an existing draft let d = Draft.find(“01AB846B-FA59-4D98-91B2-E7F52DBE3C63”); if (!d) { return false; } // append current draft draft.content = draft.content + " " + d.content; draft.update(); return true; } if (!f()) { ...

v1.8.0 is now available. It includes a fix as notified by @Richard_Cool, as well as a few additions to the diagnostics and a new option to copy a workspace’s URL to the clipboard. I have also deprecated the Drafts beta related flows as Drafts beta testing on macOS is now managed via Testflight. Launching these will now take you to the beta programme page.

It’s actually a lot simpler than my original hehe. Here’s what I came up with. I’m going to assume you’ve got less than 999 drafts in your library.

Do you know how to make an action to randomly open drafts from inbox space?

There is nothing in Drafts to access the phone app’s call log. I am not even sure Apple would have something like that in their public API for use by third party developers - it might be a bit of a security concern as that is the sort of thing that other parties could find quite useful to exfiltrate - knowing who you talked to, when, and for how long.

Is it possible to make such action which collects missed calls from given day. Something similar to calendar import action.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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