I think it would make sense if you could publish a draft post while viewing or editing the draft.
For example: you have a post that you have been working on. Coming back a few times. Then you make a few changes or read it over once more, and decide it’s ready.
Now you have to go back to the list of drafts to publish it.
It would be nice if there was:
an option like when your first writing, to publish to your blog.
an option to publish from the rendered draft view similar to the list of drafts view.
There’s a few workflow things I’d like in addition or that could make draft posts work for me. I’d like to be able to access draft posts from multiple devices. If I start a post on my iPhone it would be nice if I could then add to it from my iPad. I use a iCloud markdown editor now that lets me sync my draft posts via iCloud files. It’s very handy for me for this workflow. Another thing around drafts would be to have the iOS writefreely app support cloud storage for drafts via a plug-in architecture. I’m not sure how app stores work for in app purchases but it seems adding cloud storage would be a way at least to me for adding value in iOS and Mac. Finally to me true freedom would be posting via a share item from any markdown editor. Like IAwriter or drafts or whatever. Seems to me people have workflows and they want draft posts to enable more creativity and flexibility to editing and publishing. More integrated snap.as support throughout the process would be nice too.
The thing I find frustrating is that if I publish a draft post, then move it to my blog, there seems to be no way to auto-tweet it. Whereas if I publish directly to my blog, it’s tweeted for me, but I have no way to preview the post first.
This is aligned with our goals, yes! And I could see some ways this could be done – it might even help us differentiate between simply moving posts and moving drafts, as discussed on this thread: New Post Emails Not Being Sent to Email Subscribers - #8 by matt
Let’s continue the discussion here on a design / implementation. Did you have some ideas in mind already, @kuba-orlik?
From a design standpoint, I think it’d be best if all of the views (creating a draft, editing a draft, editing a post) had the same UI elements. Currently it’s like this:
can choose blog
can choose date
can choose slug
creating a draft
yes
no
no
editing a draft
no
no
no
editing a post
yes
yes
yes
Bringing it up to having “yes” all across the board would be ideal in my opinion. The controls for that only appear when hovering on the top bar, so they wouldn’t be much of a distraction in my opinion
From implementation perspective - I don’t know much about go, but we’d have to know if the current situation is cased by some backend limitations, or is just a design decision? If it’s the latter then it seems we already have all the UI component needed, we’d just have to not hide them
Yes, and the ability to ‘publish via Email’ to a Draft status. Many times you have ideas for posts and want to quickly email the post to your blog but not have it published at that time…
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