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Notes by Rostislav Egorov (craftzman): architecture, Rust and Go, industrial telemetry, AI agents, indie products.
What Drafta looks like: themes, typography, exportEleven built-in Drafta themes and custom themes in JSON, four typography presets, and export to PDF, DOCX, HTML, and Markdown via styling profiles.MCP server Drafta: agents read and write notesDrafta's built-in MCP server gives Claude and other clients 12 tools for the entire library. How to connect it, what it can do, and how to restrict it to read-only.AI assistant in Drafta: ⌘J and your keyHow the Drafta AI assistant works: a popover via ⌘J, seven ready-made commands, editing a selection and inserting at the cursor, Anthropic, OpenAI, or DeepSeek keys.Synchronization and encryption in DraftaHow Drafta syncs notes via the cloud or its own CouchDB, encrypts them with AES-256-GCM on your Mac, and why the account has two passwords.Revision history and backupsHow Drafta stores up to 30 revisions of each note with diff and one-click rollback and how it backs up the entire library to ZIP.Typing from the keyboard: shortcuts, snippets, autocorrectDrafta hotkeys, quick navigation with ⌘P, slash snippets, and type-time autocorrects — everything that keeps you from reaching for the mouse.Drafta 1.0 has been releasedDrafta 1.0 — a native Markdown editor for programmers on macOS. What's in the release, who it's for, how much it costs, and what's next.Drafta Editor: Markdown, preview, and splitHow the Drafta editor works: CodeMirror 6, three view modes, live Mermaid and KaTeX preview, callouts, table of contents, and note statistics.Notes are files: notebooks, tags, statuses, and linksHow Drafta stores and organizes notes: Markdown files with YAML front-matter, nested notebooks, tags, four statuses, bookmarks, and a link graph.