# Can I save a "draft" and post the completed Thread/Topic later? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 19, 2015, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-save-a-draft-and-post-the-completed-thread-topic-later/725595 "2015-07-19T11:49:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-save-a-draft-and-post-the-completed-thread-topic-later/725595/21 "2015-07-19T22:32:18Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Personal opinion only, but for urls I prefer it when people just put the raw url text in their post and let vBulletin turn it into a clickable link. Providing your own display text for the link interferes with readers’ ability to hover over and preview where your link is going. And I’m not clicking a link until/unless I know where it’s going. _Aesthetically_, I prefer display text, because a lot of links can chop up a post. But I agree overall with you (so I should probably do it that way myself :p) because of wanting to know where the link goes. Especially so for Tapatalk on my phone, where you can’t see the URL unless you go to reply to that post with a quote so you can read it there. Pain in the ass. ---
**Author:** ![Robert163](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4af34b/32.png) [@Robert163](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robert163)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-save-a-draft-and-post-the-completed-thread-topic-later/725595/22 "2015-07-19T22:44:15Z")
Thank You For All The Advice I Will Start Working On The Thread 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-save-a-draft-and-post-the-completed-thread-topic-later/725595/23 "2015-07-20T19:06:35Z")
**Senegoid** and others thank you for posting all of the technical detail. VERY helpful!! ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-save-a-draft-and-post-the-completed-thread-topic-later/725595/24 "2015-07-20T19:09:53Z")
> [@Robert163](#): > > Thank You For All The Advice > I Will Start Working On The Thread 😃 Cafe Society, right? ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-save-a-draft-and-post-the-completed-thread-topic-later/725595/25 "2015-07-20T20:09:44Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Or perhaps better still, use a plain-text editor. Word processors any more elaborate than that tend to mess with your text, possibly in ways that don’t play nicely with the SDMB input edit box. On Windows, use Notepad or any of the more featureful plain-text editors (e.g., Notepad++, TextPad, many others). On Unix/Linux, use vi, emacs, GEdit, etc. Many of these have spell-checkers too. ^^^ this. Everyone should have a text editor. Preferably something more powerful than freaking Notepad, but something at least, and know when to use it instead of a word processor. > [@Chronos](#): > > Annoyingly, on Mac, even the basic TextEdit has a lot of the annoying “smart” features. It’s a real pain when you’re writing code and have to keep hitting “undo” every character to turn em-dashes back into minus signs and the like. TextEdit is not a text editor (despite its misleading name); it’s a bad hybrid that constitutes a 2nd-rate word processor combined with a text-editor that still gets in your way with word-processor functionalities. Savvy Mac users tend to use TextWrangler or BBEdit. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-save-a-draft-and-post-the-completed-thread-topic-later/725595/26 "2015-07-20T22:00:15Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > did you know that you can resize the box? There’s an anchor in the bottom right of the box. Left-click and drag. Make it as large as you like. I wonder what browser and OS you’re using. I don’t have (or at least couldn’t find) that feature in either the quick reply box or onthe advanced reply page. I’m using IE11 on Win 7PC or 8.1RT. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-save-a-draft-and-post-the-completed-thread-topic-later/725595/27 "2015-07-20T23:07:50Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I wonder what browser and OS you’re using. I don’t have (or at least couldn’t find) that feature in either the quick reply box or onthe advanced reply page. I’m using IE11 on Win 7PC or 8.1RT. I see it in Chrome, but not in IE. Then again, the WSYIWYG option is in IE, but not Chrome. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-save-a-draft-and-post-the-completed-thread-topic-later/725595/28 "2015-07-22T05:15:22Z")
Tapatalk will offer to save a discarded new thread as a draft. The next time you try to start a new thread it will offer to restore the draft, except for the subject line. Caution - if you select no, the draft will be deleted. I’m not sure I’d trust this method for something that took a lot of time and effort to compose. But it has come in handy since after iOS6 they iPad no longer does multitasking (meaning you often lose your app state if you switch to another task and then switch back). ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-save-a-draft-and-post-the-completed-thread-topic-later/725595/29 "2015-07-22T13:25:42Z")
> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#): > > I’m not sure I’d trust this method for something that took a lot of time and effort to compose. But it has come in handy since after iOS6 they iPad no longer does multitasking (meaning you often lose your app state if you switch to another task and then switch back). Do you have multitasking gestures turned on? [**This iOS 6 video**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP4LUgTZuIs) illustrates it. It’s the same in the current version. I don’t use Tapatalk, so maybe it’s at fault. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-save-a-draft-and-post-the-completed-thread-topic-later/725595/30 "2015-07-22T15:53:52Z")
The more I learn about iOS the more I think I"d run a Macintosh System 6 emulator and use it for everything but connection to web sites. ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-save-a-draft-and-post-the-completed-thread-topic-later/725595/31 "2015-07-22T16:05:27Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > The more I learn about iOS the more I think I"d run a Macintosh System 6 emulator and use it for everything but connection to web sites. Just don’t use Safari. I use iCab Mobile on my iPad for its myriad settings, among which are Adblock filters, auto page magnification (with nothing cut off) and desktop-browser spoofs so Tapatalk isn’t needed and Tapatalk-ad JavaScript popups don’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-save-a-draft-and-post-the-completed-thread-topic-later/725595/32 "2015-07-23T05:39:36Z")
> [@Kenm](#): > > Do you have multitasking gestures turned on? > > [**This iOS 6 video**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP4LUgTZuIs) illustrates it. It’s the same in the current version. > > I don’t use Tapatalk, so maybe it’s at fault. I do have that turned on but don’t use the four-finger method for app switching. I double-click the home button and switch that way. I’ll try four-finger swiping and see if it makes a diff. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-save-a-draft-and-post-the-completed-thread-topic-later/725595.md?page=1)