From Drafts 5 to Scrivener?

[jlmjapan]

Has anyone developed, is developing, or is thinking about developing an action that posts a draft to a Scrivener project?

[sylumer]

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Integrate with Scrivener?

Hi guys, do any of you happen to have any tips or tricks for integrating Drafts 5 with Scrivener? I would love to be able to export text from Drafts into Scrivener as part of my workflow for a book I am trying to write. I think I used to be able to do this with the older Drafts - would love to do it with the new version. Thanks!

[Saltlane]

Hi,
There are two ways I have integrated Drafts 5 with Scrivener.

1. If you put your scratchpad on Dropbox you can use the Drafts Dropbox action to post notes to your Scratchpad
2. Sync your Scrivener project to an external file where destination is on Dropbox (do this first as initial sync wipes everything in the destination folder you choose). Like (1), you can post from Drafts to this folder using the Dropbox action and these “documents” will show up in your binder when you sync with external file in Scrivener.

Both 1 and 2 are text only. I use txt extension as I am one of those nerds that tends to use markdown as default writing style

Alternative to Dropbox for (1) is to put scratchpad on iCloud folder for Drafts 5 in “Draft”. I have not tried this. Disadvantage would be everything in Drafts then shows in scratchpad which you probably don’t want.

[sylumer]

@Saltlane

Alternative to Dropbox for (1) is to put scratchpad on iCloud folder for Drafts 5 in “Draft”. I have not tried this. Disadvantage would be everything in Drafts then shows in scratchpad which you probably don’t want.

Drafts doesn’t store drafts in files, but rather in a database. Therefore I wouldn’t expect everything in Drafts to show up in Scrivener’s scratch pad.