Drafts for iOS (Drafts for iPhone $2.99, Drafts for iPad $3.99) is like most great apps that look so sim­ple that’s almost per­plex­ing how you might use it but then you come across one lit­tle tip or trick and all of a sud­den the app just opens up to you.

Blank screen in Drafts

Maybe that’s just me?

Read­ing through Advanced Tips for Drafts App my brain hurts a bit try­ing to fig­ure out how I might use Drafts. The idea of append­ing notes to a text file in Drop­box is awe­some and con­fus­ing at the same time.

So my sim­ple use for Drafts right now is to post a tweet with­out hav­ing to actu­ally log in to Twitter.

Why would I want to do that?

Well if I load up Tweet­bot then I see the stream of tweets that I haven’t read since I last looked, plus any replies or men­tions I might have got­ten as well. Not that I’m so pop­u­lar that I have a lot of either, but it still pulls me in to keep up.

Here’s how it works with Drafts in a few screenshots.

Here’s that tweet:

Here’s a sam­ple tweet from Drafts (iOS app) for my blog.

— Chris Enns (@iChris) April 2, 2013

Fancy hey?

More Screen­shots

Like I said at the begin­ning, I’ve barely scratched the sur­face of how I could be using Drafts. I’m begin­ning to use it to send tasks and thoughts to Omni­fo­cus, also to send entries to Day One but I often for­get and just end up using the apps directly. Which is fine — except that on my iPhone 4 Drafts starts up much quicker than either of those two apps.

Have you used Drafts yet? I’m curi­ous how you’ve inte­grated it into your workflow.