Drafts - Linking (URLs)

Each draft has a unique link (URL) that can open Drafts to a specific draft document. These links are unique to your personal installation of Drafts, but are cross-platform and will work on iPhone, iPad or Mac.

Several methods can access the unique link for a draft:

• iOS: Tap and hold draft icon in the top left of the editor, or tap and hold the draft in the draft list. There are options to copy the link for the draft to the clipboard.
• Mac: Context (secondary click) menus offer options to copy the link to the clipboard.
• Using the permalink property of a draft in scripted actions.

You can use Drafts links anywhere you can open URLs. You can paste them into other drafts, use them with link mode, save them in other apps (along with related tasks in a task manager, for example), or even paste them into a web browser.

Drafts links use the /open URL scheme and you can also manually construct them using the following format.

Be aware that these internal WikiLinks are actually a URL to a specific draft UUID. When you add them to Obsidian, they will reference a draft that no longer exists because it’s moved to the Trash after the action completes.