The Route picker is at the bottom of the Home screen, just left of the Save button. The Route you pick there, the active Route, decides where your draft goes when you tap Save.
Pick the active Route
- Tap the Route button (or a Route chip, with the Stripe picker).
- Tap the Route you want.
Quick Draft remembers the active Route, so it’s still selected the next time you open the app.
Only enabled Routes are listed, in the same order as on the Routes screen. To reorder Routes or hide one from the picker, go to Settings → Routes, drag to reorder, or turn a Route’s switch off. See Routes.
Popup or Stripe
Choose how Routes are shown in Settings → Interface → Route picker.
| Option | How it looks | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Popup | One button shows the active Route’s name. Tap it to open a list of all Routes. | ✓ |
| Stripe | All Routes appear as a row of chips in the capture bar. Scroll sideways and tap a chip to make it active. The active chip is highlighted. |
Stripe is quicker when you switch Routes often. Popup leaves more room for capture actions.
What the Route chip shows
- Route name.
- A warning icon if one of the Route’s Destinations has lost access. Saving to that Destination will fail until you pick it again. See Destinations > Lost access.
- A time-shift suffix such as
−1dif the Route saves into a past or future note, for example yesterday’s Daily Note. See Time shift.
No Routes yet
If no Route is enabled, the picker shows No active route. Tap it to open the Routes screen and create a Route. Save stays disabled until there’s a Route.
Long press a Route
A long press on the Route button (Popup) or a Route chip (Stripe) does one of two things:
| Long press a route to open Obsidian | What a long press does |
|---|---|
| On | Opens the Route’s note in Obsidian. |
| Off | Opens Edit Route for that Route. |
Find the setting in Settings → Interface. It’s on for new installs.
Which note opens depends on the Route’s first Destination:
- File Destination: that note.
- Folder Destination: the note your next draft would go into, if it already exists (for example today’s Daily Note). Otherwise the note most recently saved to that folder. If Quick Draft hasn’t saved anything there yet, Obsidian opens the Vault.
Note
If Obsidian isn’t installed, a long press opens Edit Route even when the setting is on. Make sure the Destination’s Vault name is right, or Obsidian may open the wrong Vault. See Destinations > The Vault name.
Tip
Folder notes named with
{{title}}or{{auto}}can’t be predicted before you write them, so a long press opens the latest note saved to that folder.