Drafts 25 Released

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Drafts 25.0 has been released:

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Lots of performance improvements, particularly on Mac, support for using Tab / Shift-Tab as keyboard shortcuts - and convenience feature to optionally display assigned keyboard shortcuts in the action list.

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Drafts 25.0 (iOS) Release Notes

What’s New

  • It is now possible to use Tab and Shift-Tab as keyboard shortcuts assigned to actions. This change allows the default “Indent” and “Outdent” actions (which ship in “Editing” group) to be assigned these shortcuts to allow Drafts to behave more like a word processor style editor, if that’s your thing, rather than the command-[ and command-] defaults.
  • Action list option (in “…” menu) to display keyboard shortcuts in action list. Useful to help remember to use the keyboard shortcuts you have configured for actions (these can be changed in action edit screen).
  • Allow wiki-style links with headings, like [[Title of Draft/Markdown Heading]], to navigate to the heading within the same draft.
  • Simple List syntax now supports { } {-} {x} three-state curly braces tasks as well as the standard [ ] [x] square bracket tasks.

Other Changes and Updates

  • Add warning if an action group is reaching the maximum size limit (1 MB) for a single action group’s data.
  • Rewrite of list completion, moving it to syntax definitions to allow better control. For example, TaskPaper list completion will now only complete for "- " lines, not "* " lines, which are not part of that format.
  • Encoding agreement issue with remote loaded content in HTML previews
  • editor.preferredTabString property returns the current selected tab insertion type for the editor in the form of a string. Useful for making actions respect that setting when inserting indents, etc. - will return either “\t”, " ", or " ".
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Drafts 25.0 (macOS) Release Notes

What’s New

  • Many improvements around the app aimed at reducing memory usage and fixing performance issues.
  • App now remembers state of the draft list across quit and relaunch.
  • It is now possible to use Tab and Shift-Tab as keyboard shortcuts assigned to actions. This change allows the default “Indent” and “Outdent” action (which ship in “Editing” group) to be assigned to these shortcuts to allow Drafts to behave more like a word processor style editor, if that’s your thing, rather than the command-[ and command-] defaults.
  • Action list option (in “…” menu) to display keyboard shortcuts in action list. Useful to help remember to use the keyboard shortcuts you have configured for actions (these can be changed in action edit screen).
  • Allow wiki-style links with headings, like [[Title of Draft/Markdown Heading]], to navigate to the heading within the same draft.
  • Simple List syntax now supports { } {-} {x} three-state curly braces tasks as well as the standard [ ] [x] square bracket tasks.
  • “Capture Clipboard” option in menu bar and dock menu.

Other Changes and Updates

  • Crashing issue using quick search with specific sets of results.
  • Crasher using “Run Action” from draft list contextual menu.
  • Contextual menu on drafts in quick search was not working.
  • Add warning if an action group is reaching the maximum size limit (1 MB) for a single action group’s data.
  • Make loading of action icons more efficient.
  • Rewrite of list completion, moving it to syntax definitions to allow better control. For example, TaskPaper list completion will now only complete for "- " lines, not "* " lines that are not part of that format.
  • Encoding agreement issue with remote loaded content in HTML previews
  • editor.preferredTabString property returns the current selected tab insertion type for the editor in the form of a string. Useful for making actions respect that setting when inserting indents, etc. - will return either “\t”, " ", or " ".
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I hugely appreciate this enhancement. The drop-down navigation works well but there are times when I need the links inline and able to be copied — it’s quicker in some situations.

This works brilliantly. Although there is a growing number of apps that offer wiki-style links, and also jump links to headings, the Drafts implementation is the best solution I’ve seen.

Thanks again, Greg!