Guide
Drafts and editing
Where an unfinished drop is kept, how to come back to it, and what can still be changed once it is shared.
Two kinds of draft
sizuq keeps unfinished writing in two places, and they do different jobs. Knowing which is which explains why a draft sometimes offers to restore itself and sometimes simply appears in a list.
| Saved draft | Browser copy | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it lives | On sizuq, in your account | In this browser, on this device |
| When it is written | When you press Save draft, or Prepare to share | Continuously, as you type |
| How you return to it | It is listed under Drafts | It offers to restore itself next time you open Compose |
| What it survives | Anything — a new device, months later | A crash or a closed tab, on this browser only |
Who can see a draft
Nobody but you. A draft does not appear in the Observatory, in your garden, in RSS, or at its own address for anyone else — not even to someone holding the link. This is checked on the server, so it holds for every way of asking.
Managing them
The Drafts page lists everything you have saved and not yet shared, newest first. Opening one puts you back in Compose with the writing and all its details intact.
- Open Drafts from the sidebar.
- Select a draft to carry on writing, or press Select to start choosing several.
- With drafts selected, Delete selected removes them together.
Editing after sharing
A shared drop can be opened again from its own page. What you can change depends on your plan, and only in one respect.
| Free | Garden and Forest | |
|---|---|---|
| The body of the writing | Locked once shared | Editable |
| Title, tags, address, featured | Editable | Editable |
| Archiving and deleting | Yes | Yes |
| Drafts | Fully editable | Fully editable |
Archiving is a soft removal: the drop disappears for everyone else and stays visible to you with an archived mark. Deleting is permanent, and takes the drop's resonances with it.
What each plan allows