Drafts is a quick note-taking app, handy editor, and text automation tool. Capture text with a simple swipe, or go hands-free with dictation.
Many students grimace at the thought of writing an essay draft, but it’s actually a necessary part of the process. Whether your essay will be read by peers or instructors, drafting is an iterative process.
Customizations
The editor settings screen groups together options that control how Drafts looks and works. These include syntax highlighting for various markup languages, as well as editing settings like font sizes and margins. Syntax highlighting is saved per draft, and it can be extended with additional syntaxes by installing them. The app also supports dark and light modes, as well as alternate home screen and Dock icons (iOS only).
A Customizer Draft can be either a post or a page. When a Customizer changeset is saved as a draft, it’s stored in the wp_posts database with the same UUID as the current post or page. This allows you to iterate over changes over multiple days without having to come back and touch the changeset to prevent it from being garbage collected.
In 4.7, the Customizer introduced the ability to create page/post stubs that automatically save as an auto-draft when you edit the stubs themselves. Previously if you wanted to continue iterating on a changeset over multiple days, you’d need to bookmark the URL or inspect the _customize_changeset_uuid postmeta to find its UUID and then manually track down the stub and its associated changes. In 5.1, these auto-drafts will now be saved as a customization draft instead of an auto-draft post and if you save the changeset as a draft then any frontend requests will be sourced from that auto-draft revision rather than the main changeset post.
Glyphs
Glyphs are graphic shapes. The higher level concept of these shapes is what we call a character (like the lowercase “a”). Different forms that a glyph can take, for example upright and italic, are different glyphs, but they all still represent the same character.
Each glyph has a caption that shows information about the glyph. The caption can show something unique to the glyph, like its name or Unicode codepoint, or a property shared by many glyphs, such as advance width, left or right sidebearing, top or bottom extent of the bounding box, the 1st or 2nd kerning class, the number of elements (and components), and so on.
You can also use the Caption field to assign a color flag for each glyph in your font. You can then sort the Font window by the flag to quickly find the glyphs you want. You can also choose Select > Same Caption from the Font window contextual menu to select all glyphs with the same caption.
The Glyphs in this bundle depict various Warframes and weapons. They can be purchased for 60 in the Market.
This bundle contains the Glyphs that were unlocked as milestone rewards during the Tennobaum 2017 event. This includes the glazed cookie Glyphs, and the Vitruvian-styled Glyphs. It also contains the Glyphs that were awarded during Halloween’s Tennotober and the Revenant in Action Glyph.
Focus mode
A minor mode for when you really want to ignore the editor and just focus on writing – highlights the sentence at the cursor so you can concentrate on the first draft. This uses Emacs’ sentence detection with a value of nil to assume that there are only one space following the period, not two.
New in version 5 are action aliases which allow you to create an action that references another – rather than having to duplicate the action and worry about keeping both up to date with changes to the original, just edit the alias. This also allows you to add the same action to multiple action groups without having to duplicate it and then remember to change the keyboard shortcut if you switch between the groups.
Several new backup options to back up the Drafts themselves and/or actions. This is a great feature if you have multiple devices and want to ensure that your data is safe even if one of the devices stops working or syncing.
New in version 5 are Workspaces which are kind of fancy saved filters, you can now easily set up a workspace that shows a particular group of Drafts (e.g. Recipes) and then filter them by a tag or set of tags – and it’s easy to move between workspaces too. There’s also a new option for the Workspace that shows you your flagged status, so you can quickly see which drafts have been flagged and which ones have not.
Subscriptions
Subscriptions are a feature that allows you to draft and send newsletters without being published immediately. This allows writers to work on the content over time, which helps them produce a more polished newsletter when it is published. Subscriptions are also a great way to track the success of your subscriber-based campaigns.
The Subscriptions tab in the Settings menu provides a view of all subscription products and lines that are associated with them. This includes both active and inactive subscriptions. You can use this tab to view and edit the subscription product details, including the recurring amount, pricing option, and retry schedule. You can also change the subscription status from inactive to active on Shopify.
When you change the state of a subscription, you need to ensure that the customer is returned to your application to update their payment method. This can be done using a PaymentIntent flow or custom Radar fraud rules. If the subscription does not succeed, it will change to the payment_failure or customer_action_required state.
Subscriptions are a great way to create, send and monetize your newsletters. However, there are costs involved with monetizing your newsletters, including the fees charged by Substack and Stripe. Currently, Substack charges a fee of 10% of the subscription revenue that you charge your subscribers. This is in addition to any credit card processing fees that are charged by Stripe.