Capture Window
On macOS, Drafts offers a capture window that can be quickly accessed via the menu bar or an assigned global keyboard shortcut. The capture window is the best way to quickly capture those thoughts, ideas, and tasks you want to process later without interrupting the flow of your work in other applications.
The capture window can also be used to quickly reference drafts, even copying their content to the clipboard, etc.
The capture window can be opened two ways:
- Select “Capture” from the Drafts menu bar
- Use the global hotkey for quick capture.
The capture window floats over other applications. Once open, you can simply type, paste from the clipboard, etc., to enter your desired text, assign tags, or flag status. When ready to save as a new draft, hit the Save button (⌘ ↩︎).
The capture window will persist the text you are working on until you explicitly save or clear the text, so you can open and close the capture window as needed without worrying about that text being lost.
Share Extension
Drafts has a Mac Share extension that can be accessed by selecting Drafts from Share buttons in other apps, or by selecting Share > Drafts from the Control-click menu on text selections.
When triggered, Drafts will open a new capture window with the text pre-filled from the shared content. All features of the capture window are available, so that text can be saved to a new draft, appended/prepended to existing drafts, etc.
Services Menu
Drafts also provides two entries in the Mac services menu:
- Capture to Drafts: Save the selected text as a new draft.
- Capture to Drafts with Options: Open a capture window pre-filled with the selected text.
There are similar options on iOS.