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
Simple Scan
Love the document scanning feature in Apple Notes, but would rather send the scans to email, save to files, or share to other apps? Check out our new app, Simple Scan!
What’s New in Drafts
Drafts is updated often, here’s a few recent additions:
- Action Configuration NEW!: Customizable speech synthesis features.
- Text-to-Speech Interface NEW!: Customizable speech synthesis features.
- Control Center Integration NEW!: Run commands, actions, or open specific workspaces or drafts direct.
Drafts Store
Other Recent Additions
- Google Gemini API Integration: Convenience methods to connect with and use Google’s AI tools.
- Anthropic Claude API Integration: Convenience methods to connect with and use Anthropic’s AI tools.
- Ghost Integration: Post to Ghost CMS backed blogs.
- Command Palette: Quickly find and run your actions.
- OpenAI-ChatGPT API Integration: Convenience methods to connect with and use AI.
- Mail Drop: Get a unique email address which can be used to send email and have it imported into Drafts.
- 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
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:
- Drafts tagged stories on MacStories. Lots of great coverage of Drafts at MacStories! Special highlights:
- 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.