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 published.
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 publish | Continuously, as you type |
| How you return to it | It appears under Posts → 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
Posts keeps drafts alongside published, Only me, archived, and trashed writing. Choose Drafts to narrow the library to unfinished writing, newest first.
- Open Posts from the sidebar.
- Choose Drafts.
- Press Edit on a draft to continue writing, or Move to Trash when you no longer need it.
Editing after publishing
A published 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 published | 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