Drafts Wins App of the Year at Mac Stories

∞ Drafts Wins App of the Year at Mac Stories Drafts , an app by Agile Tortoise (AKA Greg Pierce), remarkably won App of the Year for 2025 at Mac Stories , a full thirteen years after its release. Three years ago, Drafts was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the same crew. I think it's a real testament to the developer's commitment to continued development and support. The currently at version 49, with new features added regularly. Originally solely for iOS, today Drafts is a Universal App with multiple use cases on mobile and desktop/laptops. It's been in the dock of my iPhone for 11 years and on my Mac since its release. It's just about the only place I enter text on that platform because its huge automation catalog enables me to send what I type to other apps with ease. Drafts has a robust and long-lived community with a lot of smart people generously helping newcomers on the regular. Every single time I have ever had a question about Drafts, either Greg himself or one of the other community regulars has given me the answer. My Favorite Features Drafts makes a good scratch pad for any temporary text or notes, and it's super useful to have it sync between my Macs and my iOS/iPadOS devices. While not a full-fledged notes app, it does have tags and workspaces for organizational purposes, making it a great repository for any frequently used boilerplate text or frequently pasted information such as API keys. The ability to copy text from a web page and paste it into drafts, where it's instantly formatted into Markdown, helps me write Reddit and blog posts with a lot less friction. My favorite notes app, Obsidian, has a well-deserved reputation for being slow on the draw on iOS. Drafts is the solution to that issue. Apps I use With Drafts Obsidian Things3 Fantastical DayOne Shortcuts Dropbox Fastmail Apple Notes ChatGPT Ulysses Mastodon BlueSky Micro.Blog In the past, I've also used it with OmniFocus, Bear, ToDoist, TickTick, Gmail, Google Docs, OneNote, Spark email, DevonThink, IAwriter, Notion, Roam Research, Evernote, Twitter, and Facebook. There are hundreds of free workflows available in the Drafts actions directory for a long, long list of situations and apps. Specific Use Cases The Things 3, Fantastical, Day One Combo The Quick Journaling Action Group lets me keep one running note that I can process at day's end to send the individual lines as entries into Fantastical, Things 3 and Day One . The appropriate parts of one draft get sent to three separate apps with one command. Lines starting with "-" are collected and sent to Day One as a journal entry. Lines starting with "⁎" are sent to Things inbox. Lines starting with "@" are sent to Fantastical. Things Parser Using TaskPaper syntax , I can create a note in Drafts complete with due dates, areas, projects, and tags that get correctly imported into the Things 3 task manager using the Things Parser....

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