From Greg Pierce, developer behind Agile Tortoise who makes Drafts and Tally:
Enhanced Shortcuts Support
Drafts has always had good Shortcuts support, but we wanted it to be great! This build delivers on that with dozens of new actions (over 50 now!). We also did a complete review of existing actions and improved them with more flexible parameters, better descriptions, and more. A few highlights of the changes:
- More extensive options in “Find Drafts” allow you to query by date ranges, location information and more.
- Many more convenience actions to work with Drafts, making it less finicky to configure common actions, like “Append to Draft”, “Archive Draft”, etc.
- Access draft version histories and action logs from Shortcuts.
- Control of the Drafts interface – like hiding and showing side panels, toggling pinning and link more.
- Easier to configure, granular commands for actions like appending, prepending to drafts, archiving, and editing individual draft properties.
This work was done with the help of Matthew Cassinelli, recognized Shortcuts expert, and we really appreciate his expertise and attention to detail bringing together these updates. We tried not to break any existing shortcuts in the process of making these updates, but it’s possible some minor behavior changes were made. Please get it touch if you have any issues and we can help direct you to solutions.
Open up Shortcuts to get started! Orstart with example Shortcuts
It was a very full-circle moment helping Greg with his App Intents/Shortcuts over 15 years after he invented the x-callback-url spec that enabled Workflow in the first place. Only makes sense that Drafts has the best implementation possible.
If you want to add Shortcuts and App Intents support to your app, contact me for a free 1-hour consultationand we can discuss your project.
