Hello, sorry if this has come up before. I scrolled through feature requests and used the search and this comment is the closest I found.
I would love if there was a Drafts keyboard extension that could be used in any app. Especially on iPhone. I’m talking about the custom keyboards you can add from apps in Settings > General > Keyboards > Keyboards > Add New Keyboard.
The use cases I would use straight away are:
- Copy the current input to a new draft and optionally open it in Drafts. A lot of websites and apps do a bad job of saving your input before submitting. Whenever I notice I’ve typed a lot I get the fear and switch to Drafts in case anything happens (normally getting a notification, switching apps, and backgrounding the first app makes it lose progress). I have to fight the obstacle of extra effort though, and this would help with that.
- Find and insert a draft into the current input. Optionally replacing the whole input or just adding. I know there are other snippet apps with keyboards, but Drafts would just be better. Any snippet I write starts there anyway, it’s one less app, and it will have the Drafts quality. It would help with inputs I copied to drafts during the previous use case too.
- Running actions on the current input, including selection and cursor position. This would be big, bringing the flexibility of Drafts to other apps with a little less friction. I have as many examples as I have custom actions, but you know already how amazing actions are.
Yes copy and paste exists, and multitasking if not on an iPhone, but if we didn’t find shaving seconds away valuable to us, then we probably wouldn’t love Drafts like we do!
Thanks for reading, a deep thank you as ever for making and continuing to make Drafts, and sorry again if this has come up before!