I’ve been using Drafts for a few weeks now because I needed a tool to quickly and easily take notes during meetings where I can’t use my laptop.
I’ve written a few scripts to interact with my Notion workspace. This allows me to transfer my notes into Notion, to the page I want, and exactly where I want, all automatically.
The ability to “pin” a draft is incredibly convenient for taking notes on the iPhone—such a well-thought-out feature.
Long story short, I’m a huge fan of Drafts!
It’s truly an amazing product that has become an integral part of my workflow and is here to stay.
It’s like a “Swiss Army knife” for note-taking.
Drafts is my main note taking tool not only in meetings where I can’t use my Laptop I just use it for everything!
I was hopping around apps for some time (Evernote, Apple Notes, Craft, Obsidian, Logseq,…) but Drafts was always with me. One day I decided that I’ll just try to use Drafts as my main note making app and I’m still happy with that decision My system is sometimes chaotic and I’m still refining it but it just works for me like nothing else ever did!
Fully agree with everything you said - and there are so many more reasons
I recently answered Drafts to what one app you couldn’t live without. I do use other apps but if I only had one, I could do everything in it, if necessary. The watch app, the sharing extension, actions, actions, actions!
Oh I forgot templates and shortcut actions. So good!
On my iPhone, Drafts occupies a privileged and almost hegemonic position…!
From the basic shopping list displayed in a widget to writing my blog posts (tagged with markdown).
99% of what I write starts and ends in Drafts. I also use Ulysses (to assemble text bricks …imported from Drafts then export these fragments as ePub or PDF), Day One daily (often with entries previously written in… Drafts).
And increasingly rarely ia Writer and Obsidian (which remain good alternatives).
The only exception (on iPad) is the use of Nebo, an app developed by MyScript, to write by hand (with the Apple Pencil) because my first drafts are softer when I calligraphy. No need to pay any attention to the keyboard (it has temporarily disappeared) and get tangled up in a combination of keys
The recognition of my awful handwriting (!) is all the more remarkable given that its conversion into print only happens when I want it to… I can then cross out what I’ve written by re-drawing the word, and so on.
And what about Drafts?
I invariably export this initial draft in .txt mode into… Drafts to reshape it, mark it up…
In short, I rarely intervene here, but I’d like to reiterate Greg’s remarkable work over the past decade. His app (which I had a little trouble with at first has changed my daily life…
I just use it for everything!
has changed my daily life…