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Find your unfinished drafts in a circle

Everything you start writing in a circle is saved as you type. Here is how to pick it back up or throw it away.

Your drafts are saved as you type

When you start writing in your circle, we keep what you have written, photos included, as you go. Close the page or switch phones, and your draft is where you left it. Only you can see your drafts.

Finding your drafts

  1. Open your circle.
  2. Under the box where you write, choose Your drafts. It appears once you have a draft and shows how many drafts you have.
  3. The Drafts page lists what you have saved in this circle, with when you last worked on it.

Carrying on with a draft

  1. On the Drafts page, choose Continue beside your note or photos.
  2. You are taken back to your circle, with your words and photos waiting in the writing box.

A story is marked Story on the Drafts page. Choose Continue beside it and that story opens in the story editor, just as you left it — even if you have more than one story saved.

If your circle is paused, you can still see or discard your drafts, but you can't continue writing.

Earlier versions of a story

A story in progress keeps its earlier versions, and only you can see them: see "Going back to an earlier version" in Write a family story in your circle.

Throwing a draft away

  1. On the Drafts page, choose Discard.
  2. We ask Throw this away? first. Choose Throw away to delete it, or Keep writing to keep it.

Once a draft is thrown away, it can't be brought back.