I am the developer of Summit for Lemmy.

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  • idunnololz@lemmy.worldMtoSummit@lemmy.worldDrafts
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    19 hours ago

    One thing I will mention from my own experience is for these more involved use cases, it might be better to off load this to another app/solution altogether. Eg. using a markdown based document management app such as Obsidian, Notion, etc might be a better solution in the long term as you also get features such as backups and history. This is just a suggestion though and it doesn’t mean Summit can’t have a better draft management system. This is just how I would tackle the problem if I were in your situation.


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    19 hours ago

    I’ve noticed some different behavior of the drafts lately, but I hadn’t noticed any release notes about it. When editing and then re-saving, it now overwrites the original. This bit me the first time I saw it, as when I went to delete the old version, that meant I deleted the only version. I like this behavior better by default I think, but was there a release post with changes I missed?

    Yes, there was a bug fix here but I forgot to mention it in the changelog I think. On release, drafts would auto-update so it doesn’t create a new draft every time. However at some point this broke and every time you modified a draft, it would save as a new draft. I fixed this issue so it went back to the original behavior but I forgot to disclose this.

    I’ve built up a bit of a surplus of future content, so I forget which post is which, and with it not saving backups now, I worry about loading the draft to the post screen and messing it up somehow without having a backup now, so having the ability to preview with image content viewable would let me see which draft is which easier without the chance to accidentally edit and moving the draft up to the top instead of keeping it chronological.

    This is an interesting and unique use case. I will add something to the roadmap to track this use case. To make sure I understand correctly, essentially you would like a much more powerful draft management system with better ways to preview drafts. Is that correct?