Drafts
What a draft shows, how to edit or undo it, and how connector permissions decide what waits for you.
What a draft looks like
A draft is a card that looks like what it will make:
- An email shows the account it goes from, who it's to (Cc and Bcc too), the subject and the start of the body.
- An event shows its time and place.
- A reminder shows its title and when it's due.
- A custom connector's call shows the tool and its arguments.
On a long draft, choose Show all to read the rest before you approve it, down to every argument of a connector call, in full.
The main button names what it does: Send, Add to calendar, Add reminder, Save to Notion, Add to page or Move to Trash (Move to Deleted Items for Outlook). Create saves a workflow drafted in Chat. iPhone writes some of them with capitals, such as Add to Calendar and Add Reminder. Beside the main button is Discard (or Keep, for an email Italic would move to the Trash).
Choose Edit to change an email's, an event's or a reminder's fields before you approve: in place in the web app, or in a sheet on iPhone. Moving an email to the Trash has no Edit.
You can also change a waiting draft by asking in Chat, for example "Send it to Jeff instead". The card updates everywhere, and you still choose Send.
Undo
After you choose Send, Italic waits five seconds and shows "Sending “Lunch” to sam@example.com" with Undo. Nothing is sent until then. In the web app, close the page in that time and nothing is sent; the draft keeps waiting. On iPhone, choosing Send in the Edit sheet waits the same way, with your edits; approving from a notification goes at once.
After you decide
A decided draft becomes one line, such as "Sent “Lunch” to sam@example.com" or "Discarded “Lunch”". View shows the draft again, and for a custom connector's call, what the tool answered, with Show all on a long answer. Where Italic can link to what it made, the line has a link such as Open in Gmail, Open in Google Calendar, Open in Outlook, Open in Notion or Open in Slack.
Reminders are added by your iPhone. Approve one in the web app or on the Mac, and Italic wakes your iPhone to add it, without Italic being opened; until it's added it reads "Waiting for iPhone". A locked iPhone adds it once you unlock it, and App 321 or earlier adds it the next time Italic opens.
How this relates to connector permissions
Each app in Connectors has a rule for Chat:
- Ask every time (the default): everything Italic sends or creates there is a draft.
- Allow without asking: Italic acts at once, and the card shows what happened. The app marks this choice with an Elevated risk note, and the web app asks you to confirm it first, with a question such as "Send email without asking?"
- Off: Italic doesn't use the app at all.
With several accounts in one app, each account can have its own rule.
Workflows don't use Ask or Allow. Each workflow action has its own Ask first or Run automatically setting. Off applies to both: an app that's Off isn't used in Chat, and a workflow action that needs it fails and says why.
Whatever the rule, an email with no recipient always waits for you, and moving an email to the Trash is always a draft.