Parse drafts (or text file) for email address and send text file

iOS
,
1

Building on David’s Meeting Mode(episode 30) I have created a short cut that creates my meeting notes document in Drafts 5. The Attendees contain the email address eg FirstName Surname (firstname.surname@domain.com).

I am looking for a way to send the draft document to all email address in the document from either a drafts or shortcuts automation.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks I’m Advance

Chris

2

If you know JavaScript, then you could do everything in Drafts. On the assumption you don’t, stick with Shortcuts.

If your draft’s only e-mail addresses are ones you want to send to, the get e-mail addresses from input could be used to pick them out from the draft content when you share it to your shortcut. Then you just put that in the appropriate e-mail field and have your draft content as the body.

If there could be other e-mail addresses then you would need to include some delimiters and just check the text in that delimited section for e-mail addresses. Shortcuts has a number of ways to split and match text, so you have options on how to do this that you can choose based on your draft’s structure.

Hope that helps.

3

Thanks.

I was actually a really simple shortcut when I got my head around it.

I now have a shortcut that I can share to that splits the input text, so I have the subject (first line of input text) and gets the email address’ from the content and gets it all ready to send.

Amazing.

1 Like
4

Can you share it???

I hate reinventing the wheel :grin: