"Save as Draft"?
 

I was wondering if it would be possible to somehow save drafts of posts or private messages.

Sometimes, when I am at school, I am in the middle of writing one of my long essay posts, and the bell rings! Also, sometimes I am at home and I want to keep working on a post, but I need to go somewhere or get back to doing my homework. Other times I want to think some more about my messages before I actually send them. I usually end up copy/pasting the post and sending it as a PM to myself so that I can work on it later. Same thing for private messages. I am wondering if this happens to other CD addicts such as myself, and if it would be helpful to have some sort of a "Save as Draft" feature, where we could have our own folder of draft messages that we could work on later. I know that this would probably be a big project, but do you think it might be worth it? I would love to see something like this.

Thank you!

-- Jaine

Re: "Save as Draft"?
 

Jaine-
We must be on similar wavelengths lately, but I had just recently mentioned the same thing to Brandon in an attempt to brainstorm ways to encourage people to write thought-out posts.
Not only do I run into the same situations that you do where I am in the middle of writing something and I have to run somewhere, but I also find myself rewriting some of my longer posts two or three times because it's not coming out the way I want it.

So, Brandon - can we get draft saving? (Some days when I suggest stuff I feel like I'm asking Brandon "if the forums can pleeeeeeeeease get a puppy", like back in the day when I used to ask my parents if we could get another pet). I swear, if we get draft saving I'll feed it, and walk it, and use it all the time! :)

Re: "Save as Draft"?
 

This is pretty... crazy. A friend at school and I were just talking about how we wished the forum had a way to save drafts.

I vote for it, if you're not too overworked, Brandon. :)

Re: "Save as Draft"?
 

There is a 'Save As Draft' hack, and it's being heavily modified right now. They supposedly will have it ready in a day or two. Once it's released, I'll install it (and hope it doesnt take too much to keep installed during vBulletin upgrades).

To read about it, go here:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=77659

Here are some features:

Re: "Save as Draft"?
 

For now, you can save your PMs by sending them to yourself...

Re: "Save as Draft"?
 

You can also save your replies and PMs by copying, then pasting them into Notepad and saving them as a *.txt. Then later on when you reply to a thread or a PM you can open the file you saved in Notepad, copy it and paste it into the reply or the PM. :)