Drafts Export Workspace to a Folder - Good and Geeky
David Allen
Here’s a tutorial on how to export drafts out of the Drafts application into a folder on your Mac. You can also set this up so it will export out to iCloud Drive for to a file on your iPad or iPhone. Whatever your preference.
The basics for this shortcut came from Greg Pearce who is the developer of Drafts and I wanted to see if I could recreate the draft for myself in shortcuts. It is mostly the same but a couple of things didn’t work out a little bit different. A couple of things had me scratching my head and I had to work out how to get the job done.
The drafts are exported out of the application into the folder as .MD markdown files. In the shortcuts created by Greg it was necessary to specify this file suffix. When I did this in my shortcut it wasn’t necessary. It could just be that I was working with markdown files in the first place and that’s how they came out the other side.
What you could do with this if you want to issue could give yourself a menu to choose from whichever Workplace in Drafts you want to export out of. You could even have another menu which would pop up and ask you which folder you want the text files sent to. That’s the beauty of shortcuts, that you can customise your shortcut to have it work just the way you want it to.
This is still an early version of shortcuts on the Mac and there are one or two small bugs to get around. I managed to get around the problem of the zero not staying in the action where I wanted to initially. The patient with it because there will be many upgrades to come and it will get better and better.
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