Some of My Personal Drafts Actions
Some of My Personal Drafts Actions
I’m using Drafts because it’s great. It’s a general note taking that puts text everywhere else. I wanted to share some of the Actions that I use personally. Things that I haven’t shared anywhere else yet because the workflows are too personalized and/or trivial, and also not very many. I thought some of you might still be interested though, so here we go.
URL Actions
- Meditate: I shared this before but find it’s worth sharing again. Geeking Meditation Timers 2nd Edition (Drafts, Due, Day One) (Install)
- Laundry: So I do live alone. I can take care of myself. I can wash clothes… with Drafts… and Due… and this Action. This basically creates a reminder named “Laundry” and passes the draft as
&minslater=parameter. (Install) - URL Encode: Simple. URL Encodes the entire draft. Puts contents on clipboard. Deletes everything it has created along the way. (Install)
Dropbox Actions
My second, actually my most-used category are some Dropbox actions.
- Record Weight: I weight myself almost every day. This action takes the current date and draft and appends everything to a
.csvfile in Dropbox. Because I love stats and I’m a huge nerd. (Install) - Record Receipt: I like to keep a record of personal receipts. I don’t need these for business purposes, only for me to see where my money goes. Similar to the previous action, this one takes the contents of the draft and appends a line to
.csvfile. It’s different in the way it creates the file. I wanted to be able to record receipts I forgot as well. So I’m using[[line|1]]to determine the date,[[line|2]]for the store,[[line|3]]for paid price,[[line|4]]as notes field. (Install) - Send Later: A simple action that uses Launch Center Pro’s Share Sheet (or the iOS share sheet for that matter) to share text over Twitter, Facebook, Mail, or copy text to clipboard. Very useful because people are lazy. (Install)
Maybe additionally: I use the Drafts badge to have an indicator of ‘inbox’ items. Similar to this.