Clearly, I am missing something. I dictate a draft, and have to wait 30 seconds until it auto-saves. I would like to just hit a button and be done with it, OR to have a VOICE command to “save and exit”.
From what I read, there should be a Save button of some sort at the lower-right, but there isn’t on my iPhone.
I’m inserting a screenshot of my screen after clicking the “/“ (down) button.
(The system won’t let me upload 2 because I’m new.)
Basically, the “before” picture had the on-screen keyboard covering the bottom half of the screen.
Drafts always auto-saves. There’s no “Save” button in the app. Just leave the app, select another draft, or create a new one, whatever…your text will be saved. If it is not, then it’s a bug, and I’d love more details on how to reproduce it.
I’m not sure what the 30 seconds you are referring to means. Drafts has a “Create new draft after” setting that can be set to 30 seconds, but that does not have anything to do with saving information…just a timer that watches when you have been out of the app for a certain amount of time to create a new draft when you return.
Yeah, the “30 seconds” is the “Create new draft after” setting. That was the closest I could come to the “save” or “auto-save” feature I was expecting to find.
It wasn’t at all clear to me that the app is always saving, so there’s really no need for a “save” button or function.
I’m not sure how I missed that fact, but clearly I did. Thanks for clarifying!
Hey Mark, I had the same confusion when I first started using Drafts. Coming from apps that make you manually save, it just felt weird not having that step. But once I got used to the always-on auto-save, it became kind of nice not having to think about it. Glad you brought it up, though. Helpful thread for anyone new to the app.
Speaking of the “create new draft” setting, might be useful for new users who come across this thread to review this page to get a full sense of what this setting actually does:
Finding this thread inordinately fascinating, partly because I rarely think about manual saves these days, perhaps because I spend most of my time on i(Pad)OS, where I think it’s fair to say that auto-save is the default…
That’s not to say that there aren’t arguments in favour of manual saves, though. For anyone who’d feel more comfortable pressing a button to confirm a save, there’s the “save version” action in the actions directory…
