Creating a Draft with an Apple Script

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Hi,
not sure if this is the right section - apologies if it isn’t.

I want to use Drafts with keyboard maestro to Create a draft from my clipboard WITH specific tags.

The clipboard is plain text and use variables from the Keyboard Maestro Macro.

So right now I found a workaround which is typing a keystroke to launch drafts wih alfred,
then keystroke again “CMD OPT N” to create a new draft from clipboard.

Works fine, but the only issue is that i still have to add the tags manually.

So I thought that this could maybe be solved using an Apple Script?
After searching on the forum I didn’t really find anything that could help.

If anyone could help to find a workaround (with apple script or without…)

Thank you

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Have you seen the AppleScript example in the documentation? It includes tags in the properties.


tell application "Drafts"
    make new draft with properties {content: "My Draft Content", flagged: false, tags: {"blue", "green"}}
end tell
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Great.
I didn’t see that. Thank you very much @sylumer (as usual!)

The only issue with that is that my KM variables are not pasted into the draft.
They are pasted as they are, i.e: %Variable%ThisIsTheVariable%.

So I stumbled across this:
https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/AppleScript

Still trying to implement it now (without great success)

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This works for me when I bring the the Drafts example and the Keyboard Maestro example together

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When run, I get this.

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