Wiki-style markup for cross-linking between drafts, and executing basic Drafts commands. Useful for linking research notes, creating a table of content of other related drafts and more. When embedded in a draft, these become tappable links that open URLs as described below:
[[Title of Draft]] : Creates a link which will open a draft by title (first line) when clicked/tapped. Will create a draft with the title if it does not exist. This default syntax can also be expressed simply as [[d:Title of Draft]] if necessary to avoid conflicts. Title matching is loose to allow partial matches for text in the first line of draft, so [[My Title]] would also match a draft with the first line [[# My Title]].
[[u:UUID-OF-DRAFT]] : creates a link for a specific draft by UUID to allow exact linking. Will not create a draft, it must exist.
[[s:Search Term]] : creates a link which will open a quick search to the specified search
[[w:Workspace Name]] : creates a link which will load the named workspace
[[google:Search term]] : Opens a Google search for “Search term” when clicked/tapped.
[[wikipedia:Search term]] : Opens a Wikipedia page for “Search term” when clicked/tapped.
[[bear:Title of Bear Note]] : Opens a note titled “Title of Bear Note” in Bear, if it exists. This utilizes the Bear /open-note URL scheme.
These link markers are only available when using Markdown, MultiMarkdown or GitHub Markdown syntax definitions.
The Examples: Cross-Linking action group also provides example actions to facilitate cross-linking drafts in a project.
"Typewriter Scrolling" option fixes the cursor position in the middle of the editor, moving the text as you type. Feature can be enabled/disabled in the “Aa” editor settings, or via contextual menu (tap and hold) on the “Aa” button. Details
Contextual (tap and hold) menu improvements:
Menus (tap and hold) on Inbox/Archive/Flagged/All folder buttons in the draft list to change sort options.
Updates to the navigation contextual menu, including “Last Draft”, “Next-previous draft in list” and access to recent drafts. Also the navigation menu is now attached to next/previous buttons at bottom of the screen.
Quick search button now has a contextual menu including “Find in Draft…” option.
Draft results in quick search now have contextual menus allowing opening in a new window and other common commands.
Contextual menu on arrange button, allows selection of initial arrange mode (block/line/sentence).
Scripting additions:
Most JavaScript objects now support the new keyword. So new Draft() now works in lieu of Draft.create() (old syntax still works).
title property now strictly returns the first line of draft
displayTitle property returns cleaned up the title as it would be displayed in the draft list, removing Markdown header characters, etc.
lines property returns content as an array of string split on line feeds.
editor.recentDrafts property returns an array of recent drafts loaded in the editor, with the most recent previous draft as the first index. Useful for navigation in actions. Docs
app.openInNewWindow(draft) script method. (iPad/Mac). Pretty self explainatory I think. Docs
Scripting access to editor navigation markers, as displayed in the Navigation window/menu. Allows for the creation of actions that navigate within the current document. Docs
editor.navigationMarkers: Array of navigation markers available in the document. Docs
editor.navigationMarkerAfter(location: number) and editor.navigationMarkerBefore(location: number) convenience methods to get the next/previous navigation markers relative to a location in the text.
Example actions:
Previous Marker: Move cursor to the previous marker (Header, etc.) in the draft.
Next Marker: Move cursor to the next marker (Header, etc.) in the draft
navigationMarkers are objects with the following properties:
location: start location of the range
length: length of the range
prefix: Identifying prefix for the marker (like H1, H2 in Markdown syntax) as defined by syntax
label: Identifying label for the marker.
level: indentation level of the marker.
FileManager has new getCreationDate(path), getModificationDate(path), and setCreationDate(path, date) and setModificationDate(path, date) functions. Docs
File action step has a new “Maintain dates” option which will set the creation/modification date of the newly created file to match those of the current draft. When the action creates a new file, creation and modification will be set - if it is appending/prepending, only modification date will be updated. Docs
Add the option to copy the title to the clipboard in locations where there are copy options.
Other Changes and Updates
Fix: Better routing of internal URLs in multiple windows.
Change: Add horizontal rule match to Markdown syntax definitions (***, —).
Fix: Editing templates in actions should default to smart quote/dashes disabled.
Fix: “Insert Text” action steps could convert quotes and dashes to “smart” ones even when the feature is disabled.
Fix: “Edit action in new window” contextual menu command not working properly.
Fix: Setting new range with editor.setSelectedRange might not always scroll that range to be visible.
Change: Tighten up display in some of the widgets.
New: Added shift-command-L “Toggle flag” keyboard shortcut to match Mac shortcut.
Change: Audited reserved keyboard shortcut list to include some additional shortcuts that create conflicts on Mac.
Fix: Changing current draft syntax via script would not re-render the text in the new syntax immediately.
Fix: Better handling of empty state in arrange mode.
Fix: Avoid case where text did not scroll to fully visibility when editing on the iPad in slideover.
Change: Some changes to the way swipe gestures interact with pinning.
Fix: Focus mode not selecting next draft after success properly
Change: Allow previews to open non-http links.
Fix: Submitting invalid data to FileManager.writeJSON could crash the app.
Change: Opening a draft via /open URL should restore the last selected position in the draft.
Fix: Tapping task marks should be undoable.
Change: Make {== highlight ==} CriticMarkup syntax in MultiMarkdown more prominent in some of the themes.
Fix: “Export” action step should only add .txt file extension if the filename template did not already provide an extension.
Change: Add command-L keyboard shortcut for “Find in List”