Search for --blank-- drafts

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On both Mac and iOS, how can I search for drafts with no content. That is, drafts that appear in the drafts list as --blank–? Thank you.

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What do you want to do with the blank drafts?

If it is just remove them, then the ThoughtAsylum - Management action group has an action to put blank drafts in the trash (TAD-Blank Drafts to Trash).

If you need to do something else with such drafts, you could review the TADpoLe function the action uses to do the trashing.

Function: TA_trashEmptyDrafts() 
// Send all empty drafts to the trash.
Draft.prototype.TA_trashEmptyDrafts = function()
{
    //Initialise
    let intCounter = 0;
    let adraftAll = Draft.query("", "all", []);
    //Work through all the drafts in turn
    adraftAll.forEach(function(anotherDraft)
    {
        //Find drafts that have no content and are not already trashed
        if (anotherDraft.content.length == 0 && anotherDraft.isTrashed == false)
        {
            //Keep a count for the info message
            intCounter += 1;
            //Trash the draft
            anotherDraft.isTrashed = true;
            anotherDraft.update()
        }
    });


    //Info messages on what was found and done
    if (intCounter == 0)
    {
        app.displayInfoMessage(`No blank drafts were found`);
    }
    else
    {
        if (intCounter == 1)
        {
            app.displayInfoMessage(`1 blank draft was moved to the Trash`);
        }
        else
        {
            app.displayInfoMessage(`${intCounter} blank drafts were moved to the Trash`);
        }
    }
    return intCounter;
}

Hope that helps.

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You can use regular expression search to find empty drafts. Use /^$/ in the search field.

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Thank you sylumer. Removing them is what I wanted to do. I’ll take a look at that action. Thanks!

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Thank you for the regular expression for this.