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Hello, Virily friends. With all the bugs that we often encounter here on this site, I know that many of us had some frustrating experiences.
Today, instead of highlighting one of those bugs, I offer a workaround on one.
I have already posted in the past that I cannot edit my drafts. This is a bit frustrating especially if you already typed more than two hundred words and you end up starting the post all over again.
One quick solution for this situation is to view the draft or ‘Read’. Select all the text and copy the content to your clipboard. Simply put, select all (CTRL+A) and copy (CTRL+C). Create a new post and paste the text and continue with your post.
However, a more convenient solution that I started doing is using Google Docs to create my drafts. It’s not actually the first that I used Google Docs for this matter. But at the moment, I supposed this is the most convenient way to create a draft without the fear of losing it.
One advantage of using Google Docs to create my draft is, I sometimes need to make my drafts when I don’t have my laptop with me. Since Google Docs is automatically synced with the cloud server, I can continue my work on my laptop anytime without the trouble of transferring the files manually.
Hopefully, this little article helps.
Acknowledgment:
The idea of writing this post popped up while reading one of Tasartcrafts comment in one of my posts.
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I just recently used it, and wouldn’t mind using it a lot more
I have sites that I write content work for and they require us to use Google Docs.
Well… with Google Docs, you can share the documents easily. And every time you edit a certain document, the other people you shared that file with, will see the update immediately.
In this post along with the comments I learned a lot of useful information. Thanks.
You’re Welcome @lacho59
i have done this for a long time, (not google docs). I gave up on the drafts on Virily with the first cheating scandal two years ago.
Great tip – you can also use Notepad, and many other applications to do the draft offline!
Thanks, and yes, any text editor will do, actually. But sometimes I would start my draft on my phone and finish it on my laptop. Since the files are synced on the cloud, I don’t have to copy the files from one device to another.
interesting. You do know that you can do that with the phone version of Microsoft Office, any apple phone notes, and many others.
Google Docs is a great starting point. But many others can do that as well.
One thing.. MS Office is not free… and Google Docs and other Google Apps are pre-installed on Android phones. And I don’t have any Apple device at the moment…
I can’t afford them… 😀
have you looked at open office? from Apache? it is free and very powerful!
This is a great tip! I have some edited posts stuck in drafts that I don’t want to repost. For the future posts, I use grammarly.com anyway to check my spelling, and it creates drafts on the site automatically, so I keep mine there for now.
Thanks, Elllie. I also used the Grammarly editor in the past. But the internet connection here in the Philippines is unreliable. I need to access my files offline as well.