We’re excited to share that you can now save multiple drafts, making it easier and more efficient to write in Discourse!
Sometimes, you need to take a break or switch projects when writing a new topic or composing a reply. Previously, you couldn’t start a new topic draft until you posted your old draft — but you can now save multiple drafts without issue. This makes it possible for you to work on more than one writing project at the same time, without tricky workarounds like writing in a PM or copying and pasting your work into another tool. All your writing can happen in Discourse, at the pace that works best for you.
Saving drafts
Saving a draft still works the same way — in the composer, click Close and then click Save draft for later.
Note: You may save many draft topics and draft replies to different topics — but we only support one draft reply per topic. In other words, you can’t save two draft replies to this topic — but you could save one draft reply for this topic, one for a different topic, etc.
Accessing drafts
When you’re ready to keep writing, you have a few options for accessing your drafts.
You can find your five most recent drafts in the New Topic drop-down menu, or see all your drafts in the My Drafts link in your sidebar.
Coming soon: Improvements to My Drafts
To continue this project, we’re planning to spruce up the My Drafts area to make it easier to find and manage your current drafts. Keep an eye out for those changes soon!
Share your feedback
We’re looking forward to hearing what you think! Please share your questions, comments, and ideas with us so we can continue improving the Discourse writing experience.
