Question! Is there a Mastodon app that lets you pre-write a few messages in a chain, and then post them all at once? I’m so used to doing that on Twitter for bigger ideas, and I don’t want to have to rapidly reply to my own message to then type the second part. Or, is that like philosophically not good on here?
The new #Drafts 40 update is huge. Nested/tags mean that Drafts can now be used as an organized #notes app much like #Bear, in addition to all the things that make Drafts a genuinely unique app.
And hooray! There’s now a command palette, as there should be in every app now.
EDIT: Still no attachments/images, text notes only. I see it as another blade in the Drafts Swiss Army knife. It won’t always replace a specialized tool, but it’s still handy to have in your pocket.
@EpiphanicSynchronicity Thank you for pointing this out. It's a very useful tool to have available.
I am excited about the nested tags. I think lots of people use @drafts on the go because it's snappy, reliable & good at what it does. It has lots of hidden gems of functionality and I think they should toot their own horn more.
I appreciate #pkm#tft apps on their own merit and don't need them to try to become another app. Progress should be a natural path. @pkm@pkm@pkm@obsidianmd@logseq
#Zettlr 3.0 was released today. I’m looking forward to trying it as a general-purpose markdown editor to supplement #Obsidian, because you can use .md files anywhere in your system, not just in folders designated as vaults. https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/releases/tag/v3.0.0
Also on the subject of #iAWriter I'm surprised there's no WYSIWYG option. @obsidian@obsidianmd@logseq@drafts and @typora have it. I'm a markdown newbie, having to see the raw form is distracting when writing. It actually makes me hesitant to keep typing wondering about my raw formatting.
Although I’d very much like to see it happen, #iA Writer will probably never have live preview (@reichenstein personally dislikes it), but I’m still hoping for a toggle to make the markdown characters light gray so they don’t fight with the text.
If you know how to turn on live preview in #Drafts, please let me know. I don’t see it in the settings.
I view plump old school WYSIWYG as a step back. I dislike the show/hide wiggle. And I think that if you see md just as a more readable text format that needs to be hidden you misunderstand it.
@ellane@obsidianmd@drafts afaik no. Drafts just automates the insertion of text in your files right? Then obsidian sync would behave just as if you had manually added it there.
@ellane@obsidianmd@drafts At least in my few weeks experience with Obsidian sync, it gets grumpy if any note is open when the app first opens. The sync process will try to combine versions, but it doesn't always do so elegantly.
I haven't lost any content yet, but I have had the content of notes duplicated, and even entire notes duplicated into additional copies.
So I suspect you'd be setting yourself up for similar frustration if you used a Drafts action—at least if the text you added went into an already-existing note instead of an entirely new one.
@ellane@obsidianmd@drafts I haven’t had any issues and I’ve been using Sync for two years. But the best place to ask is the Obsidian Sync channel on the Discord. You have a high chance of getting a response directly from Licat or another dev there. You can grab an invitation here: https://obsidian.md/community
@ellane@obsidianmd@drafts Oh, but one thing… when I use it with Shortcuts, I do build in opening Obsidian as the last action to trigger it syncing.
If you’re appending to an existing note, you’d want to make sure your mobile device is synced first.
@ellane@obsidianmd@drafts I use the draft actions I got from you and I use obsidian sync. I've got three configured; one to append to the daily note, one to append to the master task list, and a third which copies a draft as a new file into a hard-coded obsidian folder (named “inbox”). I use the two append ones more often than the new file one but I haven't had any sync issues