Drafts
Drafts is a quick-capture notes and plain-text writing app for macOS that helps you capture ideas fast, organize text, and send it to other apps.
What is Drafts?
Drafts is a plain-text note-taking and writing app for Mac built to capture text immediately and help you decide what to do with it later. It opens directly to the editor so you can jot down ideas, meeting notes, lists, messages, and longer drafts without setting up a document first. The app supports Markdown and other text syntaxes, automatic saving, search, tags, flags, inbox and archive organization, and workspace views for different contexts. A major part of Drafts is its action system, which lets users process text, format content, run custom steps, and send drafts to other apps and services. It is especially useful for writers, productivity-focused users, and anyone who wants one place to collect text before filing, sharing, or turning it into a task or document.
Key features
- Capture text immediately in a focused editor that opens ready for typing
- Write and edit plain text with Markdown and other syntax highlighting options
- Organize notes with inbox and archive views, tags, flags, and search
- Use workspaces to filter drafts and switch between different writing contexts
- Run actions to format text, process drafts, and send content to other apps and services
- Preview rendered Markdown and other HTML-based output while you work
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Drafts is a legitimate note-taking app from Agile Tortoise. Its local storage and iCloud sync behavior fit its purpose, and text is only sent to external services when you run actions that use those integrations. Because Drafts can connect to other apps and web services through actions, review any installed actions before using them with sensitive notes and check which third-party accounts they can access.
Recommendation: Keep Drafts if you use it for notes, writing, capture, or text automation on your Mac. If you no longer use it, removing the app will stop its editing, sync, and action-based workflows, so export or confirm your important drafts are available elsewhere first.
Common paths
/Applications/Drafts.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.agiletortoise.Drafts-OSX
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Drafts
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.agiletortoise.Drafts-OSX.plist
Container paths
~/Library/Containers/com.agiletortoise.Drafts-OSX
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