Settings | Getting to Know Drafts with David Sparks

0:05 let's take a minute to look at the draft settings those are located in the lower right corner of the screen but before we actually get to the settings I want to take a look at the fonts you can tap on this button to access font information you can see I've got it using the system font but if I'd like I can choose a different one giraffes can provide highlighting for common markdown syntax or for hash tags and app mentions in social media you can also change the background look of the screen giraffes also has a automatic dark mode that can be set pursuant to the amount of brightness in the room it's kind of nice to have drafts open in dark mode when you're in a dark room or outside at night now let's look at the settings you can access those with the settings icon in the lower right corner of the screen

0:52 starting at the top draft supports text expander snippets text expander is a separate application that allows you to save snippets of text that are triggered by short phrases drafts both will expand text expander shortcuts when you're typing and it also allows you to expand shortcuts from within actions this next setting about when to create a new draft is really helpful one of the things I love about drafts is when I open it it's always got a blank screen and ready for me to start typing a new draft but if you just leave the app for a few seconds to check some information you don't necessarily want it to come back to a new draft but maybe just pick up where you left off you can set that timer to 30 seconds 1 minute 5 minute or Never I keep mine at 1 minute so in box count

1:37 as a badge is another one that I really like I keep that turned on that way if I have any drafts my Inbox that I haven't acted upon it gives me a badge and since the badges make me a little crazy I go in and take care of them you also have the ability to hide the toolbar while editing a draft and you can hide the extended keyboard though I wouldn't recommend that because that extended keyboard is really useful you can also control whether or not drafts play sounds importing reminders allows you to work with existing reminders and add text to draft through Siri I cover that in the reminders screencast scrolling down there's some additional settings setting the default behavior after an action success can determine where a lot of your drafts go for

2:22 instance if you select do nothing in there in your inbox they'll stay in your Inbox alternatively you can archive or trash them the default setting is archive and that's where I like to keep it if you're using any third party services you can configure those accounts right in the draft settings we've done several of these as we've gone through the screencast about how to use drafts with Dropbox and Evernote this is also the place where you can set the iOS permissions for drafts drafts will sync your data by default over iCloud this is really useful especially if you have both an iPad and an iPhone that way all the drafts you recorded on your iPhone will show up on your iPad and vice versa even if you don't have multiple devices syncing in iCloud is still a good idea because it gives you a way to safely backup your drafts and

3:09 actions you can access those settings with this button also if you'd like you can reset that in an earlier screencast I showed you how to capture text from the web and bring it into drafts by default when it does so it will bring in the title of the web post the URL and the selection you can change that however with this setting there's also a today view widget that's covered in a separate screencast in the settings screen you can choose how many recent drafts are displayed in that today view now I'm going to scroll down a bit more there are several different flavors of markdown and there's a whole separate screencast here on using markdown in drafts with this setting you can decide

3:56 which version of markdown drafts uses as we get closer to the bottom there's some more utilities for drafts for instance you can backup and restore actions and keyboards you can also export your drafts and actions there's also settings concerning URL security and finally if you have any questions about drafts there's a series of links at the bottom that can get you help documentation send feedback get on the mailing list or even rate the application and if you're enjoying using drafts please give it a good rating at really helps the developer find new customers once I'm done I'll just tap the done button in the upper left corner and I'm ready to get back to work in drafts