Brief Summary
This video provides a comprehensive guide on managing drafts in the Drafts app. It covers various methods for organizing drafts, including archiving, flagging, deleting, and merging. The video also highlights the importance of keeping the draft list clean and introduces features for automating draft actions.
- Learn how to organize and manage your drafts in the Drafts app.
- Discover various methods for archiving, flagging, deleting, and merging drafts.
- Explore options for automating draft actions to keep your inbox clean.
This chapter introduces the concept of managing drafts in the Drafts app. The video emphasizes the importance of keeping the draft list clean and organized. It explains that once a draft has been dealt with, it should be removed from the inbox. The video then introduces various methods for managing drafts, including archiving, flagging, deleting, and merging.
This chapter delves into the specific actions you can perform on individual drafts. It explains how to archive, flag, and delete drafts using swipe gestures. The video also demonstrates how to access information about a draft, such as its creation date and location.
This chapter focuses on performing actions on multiple drafts simultaneously. It explains how to select multiple drafts and then perform actions like sending them to the trash, merging them into one draft, or running actions on them. The video also demonstrates how to run actions on multiple drafts, such as saving them to Dropbox, posting them to Twitter, or sending them as emails.
This chapter introduces the concept of custom filters and sorting in the Drafts app. It explains how to create custom filters to categorize drafts based on specific criteria, such as archived and flagged. The video also demonstrates how to adjust the sort order of drafts based on access date, text, creation date, or modified date.
This chapter focuses on automating draft actions in the Drafts app. It explains how to set default actions for drafts, such as archiving them when they are completed. The video also demonstrates how to set specific actions for individual drafts, such as archiving a draft after adding it to a grocery list.
This chapter introduces the inbox count badge feature in the Drafts app. It explains how to enable the badge to display the number of unread drafts in the app icon. The video emphasizes the importance of keeping the inbox clean and using the badge as a reminder to address drafts promptly.
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Transcript
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0:07 as you find yourself using drafts more often you're going to want to get better at managing your draft lists so I'm gonna go ahead into the application and tap on the draft list button it's up here in the upper left corner and you'll see here a listing of all the drafts that I've created recently in general I don't think it's a good idea to keep all of these in your inbox once you've dealt with one of these drafts whether you've sent it to Evernote or made it a tweet you want to kind of get it out of your life so there's a couple ways to do that first you can go through them individually like I've got this one at the top here if I just swipe all the way over I can archive that I can also flag them if I want I can swipe over and tap on the flag button and that will give it the little blue purple dot indicating that it's been flagged if I swipe over
0:52 and hit the information button that gives me information about the draft like where I was when I made it and what date and time it was and sometimes if you're confused about a draft that's actually quite useful information to you if you want to delete an app you just swipe the other direction and you see there's the trash button I'll type that and there's these filters across the top of the screen so as I've been archiving things have been moving there or flagged or even sent to the trash I'll go back the Inbox now you can also perform actions on multiple items in your inbox just by hitting the select button on the bottom left corner and then you can either select all if you want but I'm not going to do that you can select just a couple of them and I'm gonna collect a couple of them once
1:38 I've done that I can perform operations on them and that's what this operations button in the lower right corner I can send them to the trash I can merge them into one draft which can be useful sometimes once in a while I'll work on a blog post this way where I've got two or three drafts where I've been working on things at the same time and then I'll just merge them all into one before performing an action on them speaking of which you can also run actions on multiple drafts so I have those three selected I can click run action and if I wanted to I could save them all to Dropbox or post them to Twitter or send them as an email or you can put them all into the bored if I wanted going back to that drafts list looking at the top of the screen you do have those filters I was talking about but what I didn't say is that you can add your own custom filters
2:24 and you do that by hitting that edit button the little pencil next to the trash and I'm gonna go ahead and create a new one by doing the plus icon and I'm gonna call this one archive flag or arc flag just to save space up there and not surprisingly this one is gonna have items that are both archived and flanked so I'll go ahead and save that filter out and you can see there it is across the top of the screen alright now that we've created it lets out a few items to it I'll flag and an archive this first item and then I'll do the same with these groceries and when I go over to
3:10 the arc flank filter you'll see there they are you can also adjust the sort order of your notes at the top of the screen you can see the default is access to date but you can do it by text or creation date or modified date and there's a few other items you should be aware of for managing these drafts as I said at the beginning of the screencast I don't think it's a good idea to keep a bunch of them in your inbox because the idea is you perform an action on them and you want them out of your life giraffe's has the ability to automatically perform actions on drafts once you do something with them and that can be done on a global basis here in the settings so this scroll down you say what's the default action you could say archive it when you're done but you can also do it on a per action basis I'm
3:55 gonna go to the drafts action folder here and I'll just pick this one with the grocery list for instance I'll slide over and then I will hit the little edit button and say when I'm done with it archive it so then I'll go back over to my drafts list and I have this one for by gumbo I'll go ahead and tap on that and then I will do the draft action of adding it to the grocery list and you'll see once it's done it disappears because it just got sent to the archive and if I go to my our I've list by Gumbo's at the top of that list I'm actually so manic about trying to get rid of these drafts as I create them that I have a flag set on that so if you go to the settings you can go down here and say show inbox count as
4:41 badge I'll go ahead and turn that on and now when I go back out and see the app you see there's nine items in my inbox that I haven't dealt with yet so I find that a nice reminder that if I have unaddressed drafts to get in there and take care of them so take a few minutes to figure out how you are going to manage your drafts list
