How does Drafts do? With Drafts I can print to pdf and export to html (both are actions downloaded from the action directory). I use iA Writer to write and publish to my two WordPress blogs and for podcast transcripts which get exported to pdf and html. Both have features the other does not so there will be trade offs as is always the case when choosing between apps of any kind. I decided that to give it a fair shake I needed to move it into the Dock where it now sits by iA Writer which would be the app it would potentially replace.Ĭomparing iA Writer and Drafts Both apps have very pleasant writing environments. I’ve read a few other things and watched a couple videos. I spent some time reading the review by Tim Nahumck over at MacStories. The final version was just released yesterday so of course it’s all over my RSS and Twitter as the nerds go nuts for the latest text app. Did I use Drafts much in the 50 days since writing the above post? Some but not much. Well, I wrote the above but never published it. Fine for the purposes of evaluation but day-to-day I’d likely just use Siri.Īpril 19th update. When I added the events to my calendar using Drafts I had to deliberately stop myself from using Siri. Some of these actions are the sort of things I increasingly accomplish with Siri. That should be enough time to make it a part of the routine and better get to know the app and what it is like to use and whether it reduces friction or increases it. I’m going to make an effort for the next week or so to start with Drafts. I hopped over to iA Writer and opened it and posted to WordPress. I even created a blog post which I saved to my iA Writer directory on iCloud.
I added a couple of items to my calendar via the Drafts to Fantastical action. I added a couple of items to Things via Drafts. Over the past couple days I’ve made it a point to try. So, now that I finally get this simple point and purpose, will I fit it in? I admit I’m curious. You start a draft which you then send on to its final destination. It is for people who want to go to one place to start every action. Again, that is the whole point of Drafts. Why not just start and finish the email in Mail? Start and finish the post in Micro.Blog? The tweet in Twitterrific. Which is the point and which also had me questioning the usefulness. When I tried it in the past I looked at the automations and thought yes, they would be useful but most seemed to be basic feeds to other apps. The primary purpose behind Drafts is that it is meant to be a place for quickly capturing text which can be built on or sent on to another app. The key in determining if it will be useful for me will be the actions it is capable of. So, it becomes a case of is there really a place for it or is it just clutter? But then it crosses over into territory that is also occupied by iA Writer which is what I use for blogging and podcast transcription. That said Drafts has a few advantages for just working with text, particularly Markdown.
And it’s even better now with scanning, searchable pdfs, images, etc. I’ve always gravitated back to Apple Notes. A few years back I tried Evernote for a few months but gave up on it. It fits into the territory of Notes and Evernote. This is one of those apps I bought but that I never use. He had a recent write-up on new automation in Things 3.4 which I sorta use and in it he also touched on the up-coming Drafts 5.ĭrafts. So much so that I don’t know how he get’s any sleep given what he produces. Reading and listening to Federico Viticci makes this even more difficult. But being a nerd there is a constant pushback. Early on with iPad then iPhone I tried lots of apps that I didn’t use for long and then I gradually settled to a fairly small subset that fill most of my needs. There’s a balance to be found finding apps that work and sticking to them but also remaining open to discovering new apps. It’s now April and Drafts 5 has just recently been released!)įirst, I’ll say that I make it a point to not clutter up my devices with apps I don’t use. (Note: I started this post back in February but never published.
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