Drafts to Raindrop Action

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Created: 2024-02-11 Updated: 2024-09-27

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I've been working on making Drafts the central component of my workflow. Today, I went to the Drafts directory to look for an Action to send a link to Raindrop (where I store bookmark links) and found that there wasn't one. I decided it was time to create my first custom Action, which turned out to be pretty easy.

Drafts Actions are written in JavaScript, which I'm no expert at. I know I could have coupled it together anyway, but I didn't really want to spend that much time on it, so ChatGPT to the rescue. I read this blog post by Simon Willison a while ago, where he talked about how ChatGPT makes him more ambitious. Project ideas that he wouldn't have bothered with because they'd take a day or more, not get knocked down to an hour or less with the help of ChatGPT.

In the past, I likely wouldn't have bothered building something like a Drafts Action. I could have managed it, even with only rudimentary knowledge of JavaScript, but I would have needed to look up every little bit and troubleshoot errors. It would have been terribly tedious. Now, something like this is super quick and easy.

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