New-ish Drafts user here. I feel like my current macOS Drafts workflow is non-optimal and would like some advices:
I need to type a long email → I decide that typing in Drafts is better than in Mail.
I ⌘-Tab to Drafts. ⌘+N to create a new note.
I type what I need to type.
Now here’s where the problem shows up:
I ⌘+A and ⌘+X to cut everything I’ve just typed.
I switch to Mail and paste the text to send it away.
Now in Drafts, I have a —blank— note, which means that:
I have to select it in the sidebar and ⌘-Delete to delete it.
And every day I go through this workflow multiple times.
Is there a way to skip Step 6 automatically?
Yes I know I can create an Action to do Step 4+6, but as I understand it, that would require me mapping said action to a keyboard shortcut and memorizing it, or—ew—clicking a button with my mouse.
Thank you.
Well, yes, you can automate all this in Drafts. Yes, you have to trigger an automation somehow - be it by a keyboard shortcut or button.
A few thoughts:
If a draft ever had text in it, it will be saved because it has other history (might have tags, version history, etc). It’s generally a better flow to delete drafts rather than removing the text from them.
It’s a basic feature of Drafts actions that they can file away drafts “after success.” So you can so something as simply as have a “Copy” action that copies the draft and then moves it to the trash. There’s a “Copy” action in the default “Basic” action group, and you could duplicate it, or just edit it, and set the “After Success = Trash”. That would save you the select all, cut, delete steps with one simple action. You could just assign it a simple shortcut, like option-command-X or something and it would probably handle most of what you want.
You can also just send the Mail from Drafts and not have to bother with the switching steps to set up and paste in Mail…so would save more fiddling.
