Drafts are saved every few seconds while you type and persist across devices. Open the same draft on the laptop and the phone; the cursor position is preserved. Drafts inherit the From, identity, and signature of the message they were started from, so a saved-then-resumed reply still goes out under the right brand.
A letter half-written is worth saving. Compose auto-saves every few seconds; your drafts wait in their own folder until you return.
Apr 2026· Updated 2026-05-11·3 min read
Auto-save begins the moment you type into any field — To, Subject, body, From. A new draft is created on first keystroke; subsequent edits patch the same row. You'll see a quiet Saved mark pulse in the window's footer whenever a save lands.
§ Cadence
·First save: immediately on first keystroke.
·Subsequent saves: every three seconds of idle time after any edit.
·On close: a final save flushes before the window is unmounted.
§ The Drafts folder
The sidebar holds a Drafts link beneath the inbox. It opens a quieter view — no stripes, no sender; just the subject, the recipient, and the timestamp of the most recent save. Click any row to resume exactly where you left off. The From is preserved; the body is preserved; the attachments are preserved.
DRAFTS·Unfinished letters3 on the desk
Saved4m ago
Re: Proofs for the spring catalogue
To typesetter@moraine.co · From press@book-tour.co
Saved2h ago
A note on Thursday's filing
To anna@practice.law · From partners desk
Savedyesterday
(Untitled)
No recipient · From hello@field-notes.mail
Fig. 04·The Drafts folder — quieter than the inbox, on purpose. No stripes; just the recipient and the last-saved time.
§ Deleting a draft
Click the small Discard link in the compose footer to remove a draft permanently. Drafts do not visit the Trash — they are gone the moment you discard. Treat the button as "tear it up" rather than "file it away".
§ Common questions
Where do my drafts live?
In /app/inbox under the Drafts label. They sync across devices over the same channel as your inbox, so the iPhone draft and the laptop draft are the same draft.
How often are drafts saved?
Auto-save fires after roughly two seconds of typing inactivity. There is no manual save button — the only way to lose a draft is to send it.
Do drafts remember the identity they were started under?
Yes. The From, signature, and thread context are stored with the draft. Resuming a draft on another device puts you back in the same identity you opened it under.