Drafts User Guide

Welcome to the Drafts User Guide. This site provides documentation for the use of Drafts, the popular quick-capture notes app from iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.

• New to Drafts? Start with the basics

What’s New in Drafts

Drafts is updated often, here’s a few recent additions:

• Tag Filtering Updates NEW!: New multi-mode tag filter panel.
• Command Palette NEW!: Quickly find and run your actions.
• OpenAI-ChatGPT API Integration NEW!: Convenience methods to connect with and use AI.
• Mail Drop NEW!: Get a unique email address which can be used to send email and have it imported into Drafts.

Other Recent Additions

• HTML to Markdown: Paste HTML into to Drafts as Markdown.
• Airtable Integration: Create records (and more!) in Airtable.
• SF Symbol Action Icons: Thousands of new icon options, thanks to support for Apple’s symbol library.
• Mastodon Integration: Post to the Mastodon decentralized social network.
• Browse the Complete Changelog
• Live Activities: Pin draft to your Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island on iOS 16.1.
• Lock Screen Widgets: Commands, workspaces, and actions right on your Lock Screen.
• Scoped Tags: Use prefix::tag style tags to automate workflows.
• Image OCR: Extract text from images.
• Notion Integration
• Transcribe Audio and Video Files
• Autocomplete Suggestions
• Folder Bookmarks
• Drafts Web Capture: Add to your drafts library from any browser on any platform!
• Browse the Complete Changelog

Latest Screencasts

Check out our three new workflow screencasts, with detailed tutorials covering working with email, lists and journals in Drafts!

Our Other Resources

Can’t find the answers you need here? We’ve got some other resources available:

• Join the Drafts Community: The Drafts Community is an open forum for sharing ideas and getting help with Drafts. Signup for the Drafts Community to participate in the conversation, get periodic news, updates, and more!
• Screencasts: Head over to our YouTube Channel for great screencasts covers a variety of workflows and features of Drafts.
• Integration Guides: Article series covering how to use Drafts with a variety of services and apps, like email, messages, Dropbox, Evernote, Todoist, and more.
• Tip and Tricks: Focused quick tips to help you get the most out of Drafts.
• Contact Support: Our help center contact form goes directly to support.
• @draftsapp on Twitter, Drafts Page on Facebook

Resources From Others

We are lucky enough to have some great writers and content creators around the web who have dedicated their time and energy to helping people learn more about Drafts. Here’s a selection:

• App Store Features:
  • App of the Day
  • Editor’s Choice
  • Drafts
• Drafts tagged stories on MacStories. Lots of great coverage of Drafts at MacStories! Special highlights:
  • Drafts 5: The MacStories Review
  • Drafts for Mac: The MacStories Review
• MacSparky’s Drafts Field Guide: Series of screencasts on how to get more out of Drafts.
• YouTuber Carl Pullien’s “Working with Drafts” Series: Great short videos highlighting specific features and integrations.
• Drafts 5: A Powerful Text Editor: Overview video of Drafts on iOS from Christopher Lawley.

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