Bug With Drafts and Notes (?)

Issues
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Was messing around with Apple Notes this evening - contemplating moving to it full time (from Bear and others). And when I was messing with Notes on my iMac Desktop, I saw there is a ‘link’ icon at the top. When I clicked on that, one of the options was “Open Drafts - Blank”. See screen shot below.

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When I then clicked on the icon/link, it dropped the same into the “New Note” in the Notes app. When I then clicked on that icon/link in the Note, I got the following error. Not sure if this is a bug in Notes, or Drafts, or something is amiss with my install but wanted to share just incase this may be a bug within the Drafts app itself.

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Sort of an odd scenario, sort of a bug.

Drafts publishes “User Activities” for what’s going on in the editor. This is how handoff works, and a number of other system features.

Drafts also treats a new draft as temporary until it has some content to avoid creating a bunch of blank entries in your draft list.

You are trying to link to a non-existing draft because it never got saved, because it doesn’t have any content.

Should work fine if you are using it to create a link to the current draft in the editor - when that draft has some content and was actually saved.

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Makes sense

I didn’t explicitly initiate or do anything to have that Drafts link appear in the “Links” drop down within Notes app. It just appeared there when I clicked on the link icon in Notes.