Drafts App Gets Major Update Bringing Numerous Improvements

Agile Tortoise has released Drafts 3.0 for iPhone which brings major improvements and new features.

Drafts is the quick, easy way to capture and share text. In Drafts, text comes first – open the app and get a new, blank draft – ready to type. Don't get bogged down in a timeline just to tweet or post to Facebook. Don't tap your way through multiple screens to get down an email or SMS. Don't navigate folders, create files and name them just to jot down a note or create a todo.

In Drafts you can get that text down quickly and decide what to do with it later. Extensive output options let you send text to Twitter, Facebook, App.net, email, SMS, a Calendar event, quickly save it to Dropbox or Evernote – or forward it to a growing list of other Apps such as OmniFocus, Things, Fantastical, Byword, Sparrow and more. Customize actions to fit into any workflow.


FEATURES:
- QUICK ENTRY: App opens to a new blank draft to quickly jot down ideas.
- SAVE, SEARCH, SYNC: Not sure what to do with that text? Just type it in and leave drafts – no saving, it'll be there when you get back. Recent drafts are always one tap away, and full-text searching is available. Optionally enable Drafts lightning fast sync between Drafts, Drafts for iPad (sold separately) on multiple devices.
- SEND TO...ANYTHING? Extensive output options let you do almost anything you might want with your text. Output options include: Twitter, Facebook, Email, SMS-Messages, Events, Clipboard, "Open in..." export, Print.
- EMAIL ACTIONS: Configure your own email actions with preconfigured recipients that can be sent in the background to integration with services like Evernote, OmniFocus Maildrop, Toodledo, IFTTT and more.
- MESSAGE ACTIONS: Create single tap messaging actions with pre-defined recipients and templates.
- DROPBOX and EVERNOTE ACTIONS: Create actions to create/append/prepend to any file in your Dropbox, or note in Evernote with templates and dynamic tags.
- URL ACTIONS: Create actions with URL schemes to integrate with other apps and websites.
- IMPORT/EXPORT/SHARE ACTIONS: Drafts support sharing of custom actions via URLs.
- LINK MODE: Capture phone#s, addresses and URLs and link mode makes them tappable links.
- FORWARD DRAFTS TO OTHER APPS: Any app that can accept text via URL scheme can be added, and our Action Directory has a huge list of ready to install actions for apps such as OmniFocus, Tweetbot, Fantastical, and many more.
- REMINDERS INTEGRATION: Create reminders and lists in the iOS Reminder app, and optionally import reminders from a "Drafts" list in your Reminders app.
- CUSTOMIZE ACTIONS: Arrange actions across 4 action panes, and configure whether actions require confirmation or route drafts after they complete (i.e. send to archive, delete).
- MARKDOWN SUPPORT: Use [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) to format text, and Drafts can convert it to HTML. Preview the HTML in Drafts, create a HTML email, or copy it to the clipboard for use in other apps.
- TERMINOLOGY SUPPORT: Drafts integrates with [Terminology Ph](http://agiletortoise.com/terminology), our top ranked dictionary-thesaurus app to lookup and select replacement words.
- THEMES AND FONTS: Customize the writing environment. Drafts ships with a selection of color themes, including a "Night" mode. Choose from over a dozen fonts high quality fonts.
- TEXTEXPANDER SUPPORT
- LANDSCAPE TYPING
- EXTENDED KEYBOARD
- Live word and character counts.

What's New In This Version:
● Drafts Management
The drafts list is now divided into Inbox, Archive and Pinned panes. New drafts are created in the Inbox, when you complete actions you can move drafts to the Archive (or have actions configured to do so automatically). Drafts can also be "Pinned", allowing you to easily access a set of drafts you access/add to often.

● Action Management and Backup
Actions can now be assigned to one of four panes for easy access and better organization of long action lists (in Settings > Manage Actions). All action settings, custom actions, sort order, etc. can now be backed up and restored on Dropbox via Settings > Action Backup and Restore. This allows you to snapshot and restore all action settings across different devices, or even maintain multiple action sets for different purposes.

● Evernote and Message Actions
Configure unlimited number of custom Evernote and Message Actions. Evernote actions can create/append/prepend to notes in Evernote, including specific notebooks/tags and can optionally process Markdown text. Message actions allow you create actions to pre-defined recipients.


● Reminders Integration
- "Import Reminders" setting. If enabled, when launched Drafts will import any incomplete tasks from a list named "Drafts" in the iOS Reminders app and mark them complete. Both the title and notes will be imported. This enables adding to drafts via OS X Reminders app (if you use iCloud).
- "List in Reminders" action sends the lines of your draft to the iOS Reminders app as individual tasks. If the first line of your draft begins with a @, # or ! it will be treated as a list name. If that list exists, the tasks will be added to it – if it does not, the list will be created.

● Extended Keyboard
Swipe left or right on the toolbar while editing to access several panes of quick access keys.

● Other Action Improvements
- TextExpander snippets in custom action fields are dynamically expanded when the action is fired. This includes email subjects/body, Dropbox file/folder names and templates, Evernote note templates, etc. This allows TE to be used for timestamps, signatures, etc.
- Email actions now support multiple recipients in TO and CC fields, and have the ability to select from Contacts.
- [[clipboard]] tag in templates support insertion of current clipboard contents.
- "Tag help" screen.

● More...
- iOS 6 is now required.
- Updated icon.
- "Snap to full screen" preference for drafts and actions buttons in toolbar. When enabled, the tapping the button will snap the action or drafts list to full screen. Full screen mode is always available by swiping up on the toolbar, but this makes it easier to access for those who prefer to see the lists this way.
- Default "After Success" setting for actions allows you to select "Nothing/Archive/Delete" as the default handling of a draft after an action is successfully completed. This can still be overridden on individual actions.
- Removed many app actions that previously came pre-installed. All these are available for install from the [Action Directory](http://actions.getdrafts.com).
- Added Source Code Pro and Source Sans Pro fonts. Updated Courier Prime to a custom version with better line spacing.
- /create URL scheme can now accept an "afterSuccess=" parameter with values "Nothing", "Archive" or "Delete" – this allows automation actions to override the default handling on actions when programmatically triggering actions.
- Misc. performance improvements and bug fixes.
- New bugs. If I knew what they were, I would have fixed them – but I'm sure there's a few in there, let me know.

You can purchase Drafts from the App Store for $2.99.

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