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Drafts

Drafts is a Mac, iPhone and iPad application used for text capture and manipulation. Read about how you can use it in your workflows to automate and speed up your work.

TADpoLe

The Thought Asylum Drafts Library provides a whole host of documented functionality to quickly boost your Drafts app capabilities.

Shortcuts

If you want to make the most of your mobile Apple devices, then you should read some of our posts on Shortcuts, and take a look at our ever growing shortcuts collection in our Shortcut Library.


  • Alfred Workflow - Keyboard Maestro

    23 Mar 2021

    If you speak to anyone who more than dabbles in automation on macOS, Keyboard Maestro is almost certainly going to be a utility that gets mentioned. I’m certainly no stranger to the application and have been using it for over a decade to manage a large proportion of my Mac automations. But when you invest like that, you do tend to build up a large set of macros and having memorable ways to access them with short codes, hot keys, gestures, palettes, etc. can become a little overwhelming. I’m personally much better at remembering parts of the names and so searching an index of the available macros helps me with the ones I don’t have in regular circulation, and that’s what today’s Alfred workflow enables.

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  • Alfred Workflow - Amphetamine App

    22 Mar 2021

    Recently I’ve been working on smartening up some of my personal workflows for Alfred, the launcher application for macOS. I’ve been a long time user of Alfred and while I created a popular workflow for working with Evernote back in it’s early days, I’ve not posted something about Alfred for the best part of a decade. This seems ridiculous to me given how often I use it and how embedded it is in so much of the way I work on my Mac.

    The time is long overdue to put change that and I have several workflows to share in the not too distant future. Today, I’ll be starting off with one of my simpler workflows, but one that I use regularly. It is one to control the Mac app known as Amphetamine.

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  • Drafts ThoughtAsylum Action Groups Updating

    28 Feb 2021

    After my appearance on the Automators podcast, there was a pleasant boost in interest in the ThoughtAsylum Action Group Suite for Drafts. One of the things that came out of this was people wanting to have a way for the underlying ThoughtAsylum Drafts Library (TADpoLe) to be automatically updated. In this post I’m going to talk about the solution I’ve come up with and the approach taken.

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