Super excited about Tabs, and room for improvement

Feature Requests
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Super excited to see tabs come to Drafts desktop…

Unfortunately, tabbing a draft is too limited to be useful.

Beyond right-clicking in a workspace - there is no way to tab open a draft…

Using WikiLinks would be great to see in the right-click menu… or some hotkey option like opening a draft in a new window…

Or dragging an open window to the tabs bar…

Perhaps adding it to the primary menu system under view would expand possibilities?

2

I just noticed “recent drafts” displays differently depending the tab you are on.

Example - If tab 1 was last used yesterday… then the last used drafts listed are based on that tab’s history… despite having tab 2 being used in the last hour across many drafts…

Not sure this is intended or desirable.

3

The tabs are a system feature and work the same as tabs in other Mac apps. You can drag off a tab to a new window, or drag a tab between windows, or into another. You have to drag the tab, not the window itself - same a Safari or other tabbed window apps.

You can script tabs if you have specific needs to incorporate in an action: Docs

Other options may come in time.

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@agiletortoise Dragging windows into a tab is not working on my end… please see this video demonstrating my experience.

5

You can only drag tabs that way. Not windows. Use “Show Tabs” in the view menu if you want the tab to be accessible for dragging.

6

That is helpful, thank you.

7

Is there a way to create a new tab using shortcut keys? If not, could that be added? CMD-T is already in use. Possibly SHIFT-CMD-N? I don’t think that is used.

I love love love that I can use tabs now but it’s a little bit cumbersome to create the new draft (which comes in on top of whatever draft I have open), then right click on it and say ‘Open in new tab’, and then go back to the old tab and hit the < (back) arrow to get back to my original draft.

Or am I completely missing something obvious?

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8

I just noticed Recent Drafts syncs across devices - but not across tabs? This feels counterintuitive…

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There is now, thanks to Greg from @agiletortoise. Install this action and assign a custom keyboard shortcut to it.

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Awesome! Works great. Thanks guys.