Drafts (Legacy Version)

Drafts (Legacy Version)


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4.8.12for iPhone, iPad
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About Drafts (Legacy Version)

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What's New in the Latest Version 4.8.12

Last updated on Jun 13, 2019
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- Minor bug fixes and compatibility updates.
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Version History
4.8.12
Jun 13, 2019
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- Minor bug fixes and compatibility updates.
4.8.11
Nov 5, 2018
NOTE: Drafts 5 is now available. Visit getdrafts.com/upgrade for details.

- **New:** Support for new watch face complication types on the latest Apple Watches.
- **New:** Support for the newest iPad screen sizes.
4.8.10
Jul 9, 2018
NOTE: Drafts 5 is now available. Visit getdrafts.com/upgrade for details.
- Fix for Twitter account linking not working properly.
4.8.9
Jun 14, 2018
NOTE: Drafts 5 is now available. Visit getdrafts.com/upgrade for details.

- Remove third party crash log service and analytics.
- Fix a couple of minor crashing bugs.
4.8.8
May 21, 2018
NOTE: Drafts 5 is now available. Visit getdrafts.com/upgrade for details.

- A few performance improvements on Apple Watch.
4.8.7
Apr 18, 2018
NOTE: Drafts 5 is now available. Visit getdrafts.com/upgrade for details.

- **Fix:** Address a few rare crashing bugs.

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4.8.6
Apr 16, 2018
- **Fix:** Address a few rare crashing bugs.

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4.8.5
Mar 7, 2018
- **Fix:** Keyboard would hide if device was locked and auto-dark mode enabled.
- **Fix:** A couple of minor performance tweaks on Apple Watch app.

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4.8.4
Jan 4, 2018
# New Apple Watch app!

In this release, the Watch app has been rebuilt from the ground up to be faster and more reliable, especially when the Watch is disconnected from the phone. The app now supports all available watch face complication sizes. Also notable, drafts captured on the Watch now store and maintain location information from the Watch at the time of capture.

**NOTE: watchOS 4.2 is required for the new watch app**

# Other Updates:

- **Fix:** Fix for glitchy redraw of text when pasting.
- **Fix:** Issue with keyboard row being incorrectly sized after dropping text on iPhone X.

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4.8.3
Dec 7, 2017
- **Change:** Dark theme when running on the new phone is now really dark.
- **Fix:** Attempts to address a timing issue where some actions on existing drafts on Watch could get lost.
- **Change:** Update third party libraries and integration SDKs.
- **Fix:** Possible fix for a couple of crashers.
- **Change:** Tweaks to layout creation timing to try to fix occasional crasher.
- **Change:** Darken initial startup screen.
- **Change:** Make notification banners full width on phones.
- **Fix:** "Hide extended keyboard" setting was not clearing background properly.
- **Change:** Theme status bar area same as background.
- **Fix:** Case where tweets longer than 140 characters would fail.

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4.8.2
Oct 31, 2017
Fixing up a few iOS 11 issues and getting ready for the latest devices!

- **Update:** Improvement to layout of extended keyboard to work well with the latest devices.
- **Fix:** "Clear" function in versions list would not properly delete all versions.
- A few other minor updates and fixes.

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4.8.1
Oct 15, 2017
Fixing up a few iOS 11 issues and getting ready for the latest devices!

- **Fix:** Locale passed in /dictate URL scheme would get ignored if previous selection to locale had been made.
- **Fix:** Possible fix for iPad Autolayout crasher resulting in blank screen on launch for some users.
- Misc. other tweaks to get ready for new devices and squash issues.

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4.8.0
Sep 15, 2017
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#### Twitter and Facebook action changes

Twitter and Facebook APIs used by Drafts were removed by Apple in iOS 11. These features to support Twitter, Facebook and Social action steps. Due to this change, the following changes have been made in Drafts:

- Twitter actions no longer utilize the removed iOS interfaces, but connect directly to Twitter. Your Twitter account can be linked in Drafts Settings > Configure Accounts, or you will be prompted to login to Twitter the first time you use a Twitter action in the new version.
- Posting to Facebook directly is no longer supported. If you have the Facebook app installed, the "Share" action can be used to post to Facebook with the Facebook app share extension.
- Only one Twitter account is supported at this time.
- "Social" action steps which use deprecated social features no longer function on iOS 11.

#### Other Changes

- **Change:** Built for iOS 11 with a variety of compatibility improvements/fixes.
- **Change:** Drafts now requires iOS 10.3 or greater.

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4.7.8
Jun 1, 2017
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- **Fix:** Export action steps were not properly appending file extensions to files.
- **Change:** Whitelist "ithoughts://" and a few other URLs to work in link mode. If you store URLs directly to other other apps in Drafts and they are not highlighted in link mode, please let us know with sample URLs and we'll get those added as well.
- **Fix:** Appending/Prepending to files in Dropbox should not lose file metadata, like macOS labels.

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4.7.7
Apr 12, 2017
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- **New:** Reworked "Create new draft when returning after..." settings, adding additional options. The timeout for determining when a new draft is automatically created can now be configured from 30 seconds up to 30 minutes (or disabled, as always, with "Never").
- **Fix:** Add "Share" icon to options selectable for actions.
- **Change:** Update Dropbox integration SDK.
- **Fix:** If an action is run on a blank (non-existent) draft an it calls "commit(draft);" the newly created draft should get loaded in the editor.

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4.7.6
Feb 17, 2017
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- **New:** Apple Watch now has options to prepend and append to drafts with Scribble in addition to dictation.
- **Change:** A couple of minor visual tweaks in the Share extension.
- **Fix:** Cleanup of a few VoiceOver labels on Apple Watch.
- **Change:** If "Create new draft after" setting was set to "Never", Drafts would not enter editing mode on launch.
- **Fix:** If a script step called "commit(draft);" it was possible subsequent steps in the same action which required a UI (prompt, email) would not appear properly.

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4.7.5
Jan 19, 2017
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#### Big Changes

- Drafts has been updated to use the Dropbox 2.0 API/SDK, in preparation for Dropbox discontinuing its 1.0 API in June. All Dropbox actions should continue to function without modification, but due to this change Dropbox users will need to re-link your Dropbox account in Settings > Configure Accounts after installing this update.
- Apple Watch app now requires watchOS 3 or greater.

#### Other Changes

- **Change:** Watch advanced capture button now visible without scrolling for easier scribble access.
- **Fix:** Running a script action which committed content changes on a previous blank draft would not update the draft in the editor.
- **Fix:** Rework handling of sync conflicts to minimize redundant dialogs in some cases. Should improve some cases for users with the "Create new draft after" setting set to "Never".
- **Fix:** Rare crasher with Watch connectivity (on iPhone)
- **Fix:** Crash trying to backup keys if no key customizations exist.
- **Fix:** Crash trying to backup actions if no action customizations exist.
- **Fix:** Fix several VoiceOver labels in action editing screens.

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4.7.4
Dec 14, 2016
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- [Change] Syntax highlighting of Markdown headers now requires a space between the #s and the text to be more consistent with spec and avoid conflicts with hash tags.
- [Fix] Case where top of draft text could be clipped on cold start with "Create new draft after" set to "Never".
- [Fix] Text in share extension could get lost if moving to "append/prepend" view and returning to capture view.
- [Fix] Prepend/Append Evernote actions might not update additional tag values set on the action.
- [Fix] Misc. minor fixes.

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4.7.3
Oct 26, 2016
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- [New] Share extension will now read contents of a file if it is evoked with a file instead of text content.
- [Change] Add error if attempting to capture blank text in Share extension.
- [Change] Disable device sleep if dictation session is active.
- [Fix] Possibly not 100% fixed, but the "blank keyboard" issue has been largely avoided with changes in this update.
- [Fix] Address several rare crashers.
- [Change] Tweaks to startup process to avoid possible hangs for some users.
- [Change] Use better contrasting link color in Link Mode when using Dark theme.

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4.7.2
Oct 5, 2016
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- [Fix] Change to attempt to mitigate an issue where the keyboard can appear blank when launch Drafts on iOS 10. Still working on a permanent workaround/fix, but these changes help minimize the occurrence of the issue.
- [Change] Dictation now opens with the last selected locale/language used in dictation pre-selected.
- [Fix] Today widget display issues with some dynamic text settings.
- [Fix] Do not double encode return parameter from /dictate URL (bug in last build).
- [Fix] x-success on /dictate URL might not get proper outgoing params.
- [Fix] Make sure Facebook basic permissions request does not happen unless Facebook action is used.
- [Fix] Crash happening for some users with "Create new after" set to "Never".

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4.7.1
Sep 15, 2016
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#### Huge iOS 10 Update!!!!

## 4.7.1 includes all the great new stuff below, plus a few quick fixes for a crash on iOS 9 and some minor improvements to the new Share extension.

### NEW STUFF
- Quick dictation - create new drafts or insert text with quick dictation, accessible via 3D Touch/Today widget, cursor menu, or tap and hold on "+" button for new draft options. Also supported via URL scheme automation.
- Messages app to insert snippets from Drafts into Messages.
- OneDrive support. Actions can now create, append and prepend to text files on Microsoft's OneDrive service.
- Rebuild Today widget.
- Rebuilt Share extension.
- Spotlight continuation support.
- **Tip Jar** (in Settings). Support continued development!

### CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Improvements to Apple Watch app presentation and performance.
- Reduce time delay when tapping an holding "+" for draft creation and import options.
- Draft list improvements, includes change to system font, additional text preview visible, and removal of initial leading Markdown header characters.
- Action list improvements, including change to system font.
- Draft version history - under (i) draft details - now includes character counts and the ability to clear all previous versions.
- If action has no steps, tapping on action detail will go directly to select a new step.
- Improve display of spotlight results.
- On iOS 10, 3D Touch shortcut items now show recent drafts instead of commands, which are redundant.
- Update to the latest TextExpander Touch SDK.

### FIXES
- Crash with invalid action import file.
- Share extension would not allow prepend/append to a draft previously created in the extension until Drafts was launched.
- Export action steps should not use "txt" as a default extension failback if none generated by options.

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Review and ratings are always appreciated!
4.7.0
Sep 12, 2016
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#### Huge iOS 10 Update!!!!

### NEW STUFF
- Quick dictation - create new drafts or insert text with quick dictation, accessible via 3D Touch/Today widget, cursor menu, or tap and hold on "+" button for new draft options. Also supported via URL scheme automation.
- Messages app to insert snippets from Drafts into Messages.
- OneDrive support. Actions can now create, append and prepend to text files on Microsoft's OneDrive service.
- Rebuild Today widget.
- Rebuilt Share extension.
- Spotlight continuation support.
- **Tip Jar** (in Settings). Support continued development!

### CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS
- Improvements to Apple Watch app presentation and performance.
- Reduce time delay when tapping an holding "+" for draft creation and import options.
- Draft list improvements, includes change to system font, additional text preview visible, and removal of initial leading Markdown header characters.
- Action list improvements, including change to system font.
- Draft version history - under (i) draft details - now includes character counts and the ability to clear all previous versions.
- If action has no steps, tapping on action detail will go directly to select a new step.
- Improve display of spotlight results.
- On iOS 10, 3D Touch shortcut items now show recent drafts instead of commands, which are redundant.
- Update to the latest TextExpander Touch SDK.

### FIXES
- Crash with invalid action import file.
- Share extension would not allow prepend/append to a draft previously created in the extension until Drafts was launched.
- Export action steps should not use "txt" as a default extension failback if none generated by options.

Help & Support: info@agiletortoise.com
News and Tips: @draftsapp on Facebook and Twitter

Review and ratings are always appreciated!
4.6.4
Jul 19, 2016
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- Only a few minor bug fixes.

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Review and ratings are always appreciated!
4.6.3
May 11, 2016
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- Nothing you would notice. Mostly some under-the-hood improvements and refactoring.

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4.6.2
Apr 22, 2016
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- [Change] Action importer fix.
- [Fix] Selection of "All" or "Trash" tabs not properly restored across app restarts.
- [Fix] Selection of "All" action group not properly restored across app restarts.
- [Change] Re-enable meta tag generation in MultiMarkdown processor. Broke some workflows.

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4.6.1
Mar 30, 2016
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- [Change] Disable meta tag generation in MultiMarkdown processor. Meta tag generation treated ":" in the first lines of the text as a meta tag and could cause unexpected errors outputting, especially to Evernote.
- [Change] Hide keyboard button is now visible over keyboard even if hide extended keyboard is visible and has a new icon.
- [Change] Improvements for landscape editing, especially on smaller devices.
- [Fix] "Run Action" on multiple drafts selected in draft list should clear selection.
- [Fix] Avoid issue where cursor appears mid-screen before typing on a cold start of the app. Sometimes.
- [Fix] On first launch after install, "Inbox" should be selected in drafts list pane, not "All".
- [Fix] On first launch after install, "Basic" action group should be selected in action pane, not "All".
- [Fix] Mention iCloud Drive requirement in iCloud settings error.
- [Fix] Rare crash in sync process.
- [Fix] Workaround for "white keys on dark keyboard" issue in a few more places.
- [Fix] Swiping through draft list tabs should include new Trash tab.
- [Change] Tighten up the line height a little.

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