Photos, images, videos, recordings and files you add to a draft appear right in the editor, alongside your text. When you save, they’re stored in your Vault and embedded in the note where you placed them.
Working with attachments
Add attachments with the capture actions on the Home screen. Each one appears in the editor right where your cursor is. If the cursor is in the middle of a paragraph, the text is split around it, so you can keep typing above and below. See Capture actions.
| Attachment | Add it with | What you can do |
|---|---|---|
| Photo | Photo to open the camera, or Scan to read the text in it | Tap Refine to crop it or read its text. See Scan text. |
| Images and videos | Image to pick from your gallery | Tap Refine on an image to crop it or read its text. |
| Voice recording | Audio | Play it, or tap Transcribe to turn it into text. See Voice notes. |
| Any file | File | Audio files can be played and transcribed, like recordings. |
Every attachment can also be:
- Moved: long press it and drag it to another place in the text.
- Removed: tap the cross on it. Undo brings it back.
Pressing Backspace at the start of the line right below an attachment doesn’t delete it. The cursor jumps to the end of the text above.
Where attachments end up
When you save, each attachment is stored as a file in your Vault and embedded in the note where you placed it.
- By default, files go to the folder of the Default Route for files. You pick it during First setup and can change it in Settings → Defaults. See Default Routes.
- For one Route, turn on the Custom Files location Route action to save that Route’s files to another folder, optionally in a subfolder such as
Attachments/2026/. See Route actions > Custom Files location.
See Files and attachments for how files are named and linked.
File names
Photos you take and voice recordings get names from date formats. Change them in Settings → Note content.
| Setting | Used for | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Image capture name | Photos taken with Photo or Scan | MM-DD-YYYY_HH-mm-ss |
| Voice recording name | Recordings made with Audio | MM-DD-YYYY_HH-mm-ss |
Picked images and files keep their own names. See Date formats for the pattern syntax.
Image formats
- HEIF/HEIC photos are converted to JPEG.
- Original EXIF data, such as the capture date and location, is kept.
Android
Images picked with Image may not keep their original file name. To keep it, attach the image with File instead.
After you reopen the app
Attachments in an unsent draft are copied to the media cache, so they’re still there when you reopen Quick Draft, even after a restart. If caching is off or the cache was cleared, some may be missing. See Drafts and cache.