How to hide bottom bar & always keep "float on top" enabled?

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Hey everyone, I’m a new drafts user. I have two questions:

  1. How do I enable this bottom bar in drafts? I couldn’t find anything in the hide in the view menu.
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  2. How do I always have float on top enabled? Right now I can go to “window” and enable it, but when I quit the app that setting is cleared and I have to do it again..
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This is the float-on-top feature I’m asking about.

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There is not an option to hide the status bar below the editor.

“Float on Top” will remain selected if you enable it. Do you mean across a restart of the app? If you quit it will revert to off.

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Float on Top

No way to keep it persisted across app restarts?

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No, there is not. I tend to think that would cause a lot of problems.

Have you considered using the Capture window? It always floats and was designed for just that sort of capture over other apps.

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Thanks. I think the capture window is meant to be a way to quickly capture drafts, but my objective is to have my Drafts floating over my other windows so I can quickly look at the content of the draft and sometimes even switch to a different draft. I’m basically trying to replace Tot. let me know if there’s a way to do that? Other than that, if there is an automation or something (AppleScript) I can add, where whenever Drafts launches, it auto clicks the float on top in window menu

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That property is not currently visible to scripts, but I’ll add a property to allow you to set it in an action in the next update.

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FYI, hide the status bar was added in v48.2. See View > Hide Status Bar

A scriptable flag for toggling Float on Top was also added. See example action.