Transient Workspace

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Transient Workspace

Updated 02162023-131111

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Directory Description

Shows untagged Drafts created within the past two weeks, sorted by descending modification date in the default view (Inbox) and by descending creation date in all others.

Functionally, this workspace was created (and seems to be satisfactorily addressing, so far) a few key functions:

1. A unique and essential function for Icon Badge Support

2. An essential role for prime-placement of Drafts' gorgeous Widgets.

3. A new confidence in the face of disruptive distractions which (occasionally) resulted in forgotten Drafts.

For more details/tedious opining on use for this workspace, see This Workspace's GitHub Issue and/or my (work-in-progress) blog post. Contact me however/whenever you'd like for questions/suggestions/general support.

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This truly reflects some completionism-adjacent obsession, but an intermittent bother of mine is resolved forever, I think, by this workspace: in displaying the count of any/all Drafts present past this filter at any given time, the big red number badge in the dock exposes a singularly relevant/urgent statistic (within the limits of my noodling, anyway.)

2. An essential role for prime-placement of Drafts' gorgeous Widgets.

(Another personal problem, I suppose.)

Frankly, Drafts' widgets have always been my favorite use of the whole concept by a long shot, and yet also some of the hardest to place, simply because of how much of my on-device time is spent already within Drafts.

Always down to try out yet another representation of the chronological list, I thought I'd given every permutation of the List Widget a good College Try on my iPad Pro, but succeeded only in needlessly clogging secondary, tertiary, etc. device views with information I'm never further than a few keystrokes away from, anyway.

In a two-cell widget restricted to displaying this Workspace near the top of my iPad's Today View, however, I have found

Description

Shows untagged Drafts created within the past two weeks, sorted by descending modification date in the default view (Inbox) and by descending creation date in all others.

Functionally, this workspace was created (and seems to be satisfactorily addressing, so far) a few key functions:

External Representations

Widget Justification

Personal Habit

First - almost certainly the least healthy of my (very lengthy, very complicated) relationship with Drafts has been a longstanding struggle with losing more impromptu documents to moderate daily distractions. (Nothing so little as an unexpected telephone call - more like an unexpected and urgent trip to the store for cough medicine or something.) This has compounded with my recent return to working intermittently on Windows machines, from which I sometimes use the Drafts Web Capture tool, recklessly forgo tagging a Draft, and then take longer than expected to conclude on said machine and return to Drafts.

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