Brief Summary
This video demonstrates the power of the "Action Directory" in the Drafts app. The Action Directory is a collection of powerful actions created by developers, including the Drafts team and community members, that can be downloaded and used within the app. These actions allow users to perform various tasks, such as searching on Google, finding contact information in the Interact app, and more, without needing any programming knowledge.
- The Action Directory is a powerful tool for extending the functionality of the Drafts app.
- Users can download and install actions directly from the Action Directory website.
- Actions can be used to perform a wide range of tasks, including searching, finding contact information, and more.
This video introduces the Action Directory, a powerful feature in the Drafts app. The Action Directory is a website hosted by the Drafts team that provides a collection of actions that can be downloaded and used within the app. These actions are created by developers, including the Drafts team and community members, and offer a wide range of functionality. The video demonstrates how to access the Action Directory, install an action, and use it to search on Google and find contact information in the Interact app. The video highlights the ease of use and the power of the Action Directory, emphasizing that users don't need any programming knowledge to take advantage of its features.
The video demonstrates how to use the "Search on Google" action from the Action Directory. The action allows users to select any text within Drafts and search it on Google. The video shows the process of installing the action, adding it to the "Basic" list, and using it to search for "Max Sparky" within a draft. This highlights the ability to integrate Google Search directly into Drafts, enhancing its functionality.
The video showcases the "Search and Interact" action, which allows users to search for contact information within the Interact app using selected text in Drafts. The video demonstrates the process of installing the action, adding it to the "Basic" list, and using it to find the contact information for "Lind Barcata" within a draft. This example emphasizes the power of the Action Directory to connect Drafts with other apps, expanding its capabilities and streamlining workflows.
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0:00 [Music] so far I've talked a lot about the actions available in drafts but what I haven't mentioned yet is the actions directory and that's really a power tip so I'm going to go up to the upper right corner and hit the plus button and you'll see visit action directory here at the bottom and I'll go ahead and tap on that and that's bringing me to a website and this is hosted by the people behind drafts and what this is is a collection of really powerful actions that you can perform in drafts you can download it into the app directly from this website and these are created by a bunch of really smart programmers including some of the folks behind the drafts application itself and a bunch of
0:45 people who don't frankly work for drafts but really love the application and and make these for the community the good news is you don't need to have a lick of programming knowledge to take full advantage of these for example here's one that allows me to search on Google so I'll go ahead and tap that and it gives me a brief description of what this does but in essence I can select any text and then search it on Google so I'm going to go ahead and install that so I'll tap the install button and it'll open it in drafts and then drafts will ask me where to place it I'm going to put it in the basic list and then I can add a message and I can select one of the work words in there and I'm going to hit the
1:31 drafts action and say search on Google and you can see it'll search Max Sparky so I've just added the power of Google Search to my drafts just by downloading the action directory Google action so here I go going to go back into the action directory and find another one the developer behind drafts has another application called interact which is a real powerful contact manager for iOS and of course course there's a great set of action directory actions for it in drafts so I'm going to go ahead and tap on that and then you can see a list of available actions I'm going to go ahead and select this one search and interact so once I tap on that I get a
2:16 description it searches my contacts and interact using the selected text that sounds useful so I'll go ahead and hit install I'm going to save that to the basic list and now I've got that added to my directory there it is at the bottom so if I were typing a new message so I've got this question in drafts and I could actually search interact for the number for Lind barcata I'm going to double tap the last name and then I'm going to hit the action directory and scroll to the bottom search and interact and it's going to go and interact and find her contact information it's just crazy what you can do with this application if you start digging into the action directory [Music]
