Quick Draft is built on a few ideas. Once they click, every screen in the app makes sense.
How a capture travels
- You capture something: text in the editor, a photo, a recording, a shared link.
- You pick a Route and tap Save.
- The Route runs its actions on the content: wrapping it in a template, fetching link titles, generating a title, and so on.
- The result is written to each of the Route’s Destinations: appended to a note, inserted into a section, or saved as a new note.
- A record of what happened is kept in History, where you can restore it later.
Destination
A Destination is a place in your Vault that Quick Draft is allowed to write to. It is one of two types:
- File: an existing Markdown note. Your text is added at its beginning or end, or inside a chosen section.
- Folder: a folder where Quick Draft creates new notes (named by a pattern such as today’s date) and stores files.
Think of it as the target for your drafts. → Destinations, Note placement and sections, New notes and file names
Route
A Route is the how: rules and actions Quick Draft applies when sending content to your Destination(s). You can think of them as instructions for delivery. Routes are shown on the Home screen, where you choose one before saving.
What Routes can do:
- Save a draft to several Destinations at once.
- Format text automatically: remove the title line, quotes or URLs.
- Wrap the content in a template before saving.
- Generate missing Properties with AI, embed media, open Obsidian afterwards.
Templates
There are two kinds, for two different jobs:
- Wrap capture (a Route action) surrounds each capture with text, such as a timestamp heading or a divider. The
{{content}}token marks where your captured text goes. → Wrap capture - New note template (a folder Destination setting) is used once, when Quick Draft creates a new note. It’s ideal for Daily Notes, and can use a note from your Obsidian templates folder. → Note templates
Example. Wrap capture template:
{{YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm}}
{{content}}
Captured note:
Example note
Result in Obsidian:
2026-08-29 08:29
Example note
Tokens
Tokens are short codes in double curly braces that are filled in when you save: {{content}}, {{title}}, {{auto}} (an AI-generated title), {{gps}}, and any date token such as {{YYYY-MM-DD}}. They work in templates, file names, section names and Properties. → Tokens, Date formats
Default Routes
Some captures happen without a Route picker, so Quick Draft needs defaults:
- Default Route for files: where photos, recordings and other files are stored. Required.
- Default Route for sharing: used when you share into Quick Draft from another app. Optional.
- Route for the Voice Bubble (Android): where the floating recorder saves.
Drafts and History
The Home screen holds one draft, saved automatically while you type, so you never lose it. Each save creates a History record with every step that ran, and you can restore its content to your Vault again. → History, Drafts and cache