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Approvals

Approve or discard tasks from the Mac menu bar or from your iPhone.

Approve from the Mac menu bar

Italic for Mac puts your workflow drafts in the menu bar, so you can approve without opening a window.

  • Open the Italic menu. Waiting for you lists each draft with a button named for what it does (Approve for an email, event or reminder; Save to Notion or Add to Page for Notion), Discard and Review. Review opens the recording in the Italic window.
The Italic menu in the Mac menu bar: under Waiting for you, an email to jordan@example.com from the Email follow-ups workflow with Approve, Discard and Review; then Copy new Clips automatically, Paste automatically, Workflows 3 of 3 on, and the newest recordings.
The Italic menu in the Mac menu bar, with a workflow's draft waiting.
  • Each new draft also posts a banner with Approve and Discard.
  • An email with no recipient reads "Email with no recipient yet", with Add recipient and Discard instead of Approve. Its banner has Discard only.
  • If an approval is refused, the menu says "This draft needs changes before it can be approved. Review it on the web."

When more drafts wait than the menu shows, choose the "more in Tasks" line to open the Italic window, then choose Tasks in the sidebar for the rest.

Approve from your iPhone

Your iPhone can notify you of each workflow draft, and follow a run on the Lock Screen. Approve asks for Face ID first. See Notifications on iPhone in Workflows.

Drafts

What a draft shows, how to edit or undo it, and how connector permissions decide what waits for you.

Workflows

Let a recording act for you, like Shortcuts for what you say. Say a phrase and Italic writes, drafts or sends what you set up.

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