Drafts

So everybody is talking about Drafts, the inbox for all of your text on IOS.

Initially I could not imagine to actually need such an app as most of my writing happens in Byword which also has a Mac client.

But as geeky as I am I gave it a spin anyway and am impressed. It completely changed my writing even for messaging, email, calendar entries and even meeting notes due to Draft’s extensive export options. The standard options are:

• Share, Open in, Email, message
• Send to Omnifocus, Day One, Byword
• Post to Twitter, Facebook, App.net
• Save and append in Dropbox
• Save and append in Evernote
• Create events, reminders
• Parse in Fantastical

As it is compatible with Smile Software’s excellent Textexpander I can make use of my various snippets making text entries even faster.

But that’s only scratching the surface. Drafts adds to the growing support of URL schemes . In practice this means you send text to other apps who support URL schemes and are not included in Draft’s standard export options.

Why do I need this? How about feeding an address to Google Maps? Prepend your shopping list on Dropbox. Let Hazel watch a certain text file and trigger actions on your Mac at home. The possibilities seem endless and I cannot wait to see what people will come up with.