Draft Announcements: Better comments, collaborator reminders, and tables
Happy Holidays! Just a few neat things in Draft before the end of the year:
Gift Idea :)
If you’re still looking for a quick gift idea for anyone, don’t forget Draft Gifts. It’s a great way to support a writer in your life, as well as the future of the product.
Comments!
Comments have gotten a big upgrade.
You can now attach comments to specific lines and text in your document. Hovering over comments shows you the text the comment is about.
In comment mode, to create new comments, select some text, or place your cursor where your comment should be, and use the action menu to start a new comment.
A new comment box will open up in the right margin next to the context of your comment.
To enter comment mode and see all your comments, it’s just as before, click the talk bubble at the bottom right of your edit screen:
If you are in comment mode, you can also select text you want to quote and a comment menu will appear.
What’s extra special about comments now is that you can reply to individual ones. If a collaborator makes a comment, you can make your own remarks.
If you have people collaborating on your document, you still have the option of making sure the comment is emailed to your collaborator immediately.
All your comments now show up in the view to merge in your collaborator’s changes:
Collaborator Reminders
One problem I’ve had working with collaborators, which I know other people have experienced, is when a collaborator forgets or doesn’t know to click the “You’re done editing” button when they finish their edits.
Now, Draft will remind collaborators who’ve made changes before they exit the document:
Tables
You can now create HTML tables in Draft.
The basic format looks like this:
First Header | Second Header
------------- | -------------
Content Cell | Content Cell
Content Cell | Content Cell
Rendering will output a typical HTML table.
Email Digests
If the emails in your Team Folders have been getting a bit too chatty, you can now turn on email digests in Settings->Your Info. You’ll get an email at the end of the day with any discussion messages from your Team Folders.
Member’s Lounge Invites
I believe I’ve got the last of the Member Lounge invites out to all paying Draft subscribers. If you haven’t gotten one, or need to be re-invited please let me know.
Happy Holidays and have a great New Year!
I hope you get to spend it with family and friends and in a warm place. I’m here if you have any questions or need anything. Twitter’s a great place to reach me:
https://twitter.com/natekontny
Or the official Draft Twitter account: