Updated my book management in @drafts. Full screen, proper masonry, colour coding actually means something (related to the colour coded filter buttons), with locally cached images, and running an "add new title" action from the filter if the searched for title doesn't match anything in the vault. Functions quite nicely as a list of active/paused/archived/abandoned reads, wishlist, and anti-library...
Haven't ported my entire library, so this is a sub segment. Heavy #SciFi bias...
I have no aspirations to become one of those dashboard people (a la Notion)... but it seems like I'm becoming a dashboard person?
After yesterday's high drama, some more @drafts action/workflow noodling is a salve. See image. Each of the headings in the main section reveals a short list of items. Accordion effect— tapping on one area hides others. It's an overview, a launcher, and a nudge towards right action.
Guess who just discovered full screen and hide interface settings? 🤓
I really do half-ass documenting the various #DraftsApp actions I dream up. A number of them end up unused, having seemed like good ideas in the moment. Takes time to figure out what actually sticks.
This week I discovered MyMind's Serendipity feature (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kt1Ix86mrw), and thought it could be useful in Drafts (pictured). Then figured I could use the same way of working for a spaced repetition workflow. Processing old drafts and surfacing old ideas that would otherwise remain buried...
Waiting in the discharge lounge. Likely a long wait (because reasons). Found a table and reasonably comfortable chair. Time to refactor some Drafts actions, and see where we go from there? Let’s GO!!!!
(If I fold and end up playing some Divinity: Original Sin II, I’ll still take it as a win…)
In other news: spent the day working on a commissioned sequence.
I sometimes wonder whether my workflow noodling is more procrastination than productivity; today’s session was proof of value.
From authoring and editing new pieces, through managing work in progress, #DraftsApp continues to shine. I’ve recently tweaked a couple of output actions so I can export to Pages via rich text or export a formatted PDF— the last mile of my process. Those and a drag/drop sentence-part restructurer.
See the little red tag on the second card in the "Active" lane? That's based on a "next due" tag. Dates due at some point in the future are blue, due in the next week are green, and overdue are red (like this one).
It kinda blows my mind what's possible with HTML views in Drafts. Yes, there are limitations, but the ability to build interfaces that make sense for the way my brain works is just... wow. One of many reasons to love #DraftsApp.
The orange dot on some project cards indicates a flagged project. The grey dot in the bottom corner loads the project draft and runs a "manage project" action (another HTML view) that allows me to manage a project's meta data— essentially tags. Including things like "next due date".
The management interface also surfaces any open tasks in the project in a list underneath the custom tags panel, where clicking any specific task highlights that task in the project's contents.