r/CraftDocs

Last year (I think) it was stated OCR was coming, what arrived was an ai feature that isn’t really ocr in the sense understood for notes and search. Is actual OCR, like Evernote level OCR something that is planned for documents or is now is good as that will be?

Would've given up on Craft if it wasn't for the MCP server. Love the mobile and iPad app, always have. But now with AI in the mix, I'm using Craft as a layer alongside Todoist and Google Drive,. Claude orchestrates across all of it.

Here's my setup:

1. Craft = the knowledge layer. Where I think. Notes, principles, book highlights, trip plans, recipes, app ideas. Folders mirror my life areas — Health, Home, Relationships, Ventures, Personal Finance, Experiences & Travel, Knowledge. Daily Notes for journaling.
2. Todoist = the action system. Same life areas as craft. Don't use craft for task but would be amazing to integrate stuff captured and integrate it here.
3. Cowork = the operating system. A folder of CLAUDE.md and MEMORY.md files that tells Claude how I work, what's where. Each life area gets a "workstation" — basically a desk.

One big thing is synchronizing all my life areas across Google Drive, Todoist, Craft. Same taxonomy everywhere.

Anyone else playing around with AI as the orchestrator and Craft as a knowlede layer? Really cool stuff. Feels like a novelty right now, not sure if its really making me productivty lo.

Even if you just use the MCP to organize Craft then doing more than 90% of people.

I keep dreaming of a workflow that would make Craft the perfect brain-dump app and second-brain system. It already has many of the right building blocks, but the connections and automation between them still feel limited.

My ideal workflow would look something like this:

- I quickly capture anything:

- web links

- screenshots

- voice memos

- tasks

- reminders

- quick thoughts

- Everything goes straight into a universal inbox with minimal friction.

- Later, during processing, I add tags, properties, or relations.

- Based on those tags/properties, items are then automatically collected into:

- folders

- collections

- dashboards

- documents

- project spaces

At the moment, Craft feels very close, but there are still some structural limitations:

- Tags are still quite limited and not deeply integrated into workflows.

- Collections are restricted inside their parent documents rather than acting globally.

- Shortcuts can append to documents, but not directly into collections/databases/views.

- Captured content cannot easily include active elements like mentions, backlinks, or relations during quick capture.

- There is still friction between “capture first” and “organize later.”

What I would love to see:

- A true global inbox

- More powerful tags/properties

- Dynamic smart collections based on filters

- Global collections/databases not tied to one document

- Better automation rules

- Shortcut support for adding structured objects directly into collections

- Ability to create mentions/backlinks/relations during capture

- More object-based workflows rather than purely document-based organization

Craft already has one of the best writing and UX experiences out there. These kinds of workflow improvements could make it an incredible PKM and second-brain platform as well.

Hi Craft team,

Please consider adding a Graph View feature similar to Obsidian.

It would help users visually see connections between documents, backlinks, folders, and linked pages. This would make Craft much stronger for personal knowledge management, research, study notes, and long-term knowledge organization.

A global graph and local graph for each document would be very useful.

Thanks for considering this feature.

I really enjoy using Craft Agents, I was looking for an opensource or free non vendor locked alternative to Codex and Craft Agents is simply the best in it's class. I don't see a lot of people talking about it which is interesting since it probably is the easiest to use Agentic platform compared to things like Hermes etc. Just posting this to make sure people know and good job Craft team!

Following Viktor’s post yesterday, an update has already dropped, 3.4.2. This seems to be the ‘early next week’ version he was referring to:

• ⁠Early next week: better sidebar customization, Reminders improvements, and some smaller fixes

The customization is useful, especially on the smaller mobile screen where you can now hide Imagine and Shared with Me. Imagine in particular didn’t need to be at the top of the side bar, it’s a (very useful) setting to access MCP and API connections but didn’t need to be accessed daily.

The reminder improvements are the other ones I’ve looked at. Seems an improved implementation but to be honest I’ve never really found a good use case for them or understood when to use reminders vs tasks. I can see the point of timed tasks but adding an alert to a document seems less useful. Any good ideas?

Here are the full release notes:

Craft 3.4.2 Release Notes
This update brings a redesigned Reminders experience, more flexible sidebar customization, smoother editing, and a range of visual polish across Craft.
You can now keep Craft cleaner by hiding Imagine and Shared with Me from the sidebar on Mac and iPad, or from the Home Screen on iPhone. Reminders are easier to manage with grouped sections for Overdue, Upcoming, and Resolved items. On Mac, you can also pin the Craft Assistant panel to the side of your window so it stays open while you write.
We’ve also improved styling interactions, math formulas, exports, slash menu labels, and fixed several small visual glitches across the app.
Highlights
Home, Sidebar & Navigation
• You can now hide Imagine and Shared with Me from the sidebar on Mac and iPad, and from the Home Screen on iPhone via Customize Sidebar. This is especially useful if you prefer a cleaner, more focused mobile experience.
• We also cleaned up several small visual details across the app, including sidebar alignment, selected Calendar states, and card style modal behavior.
Reminders
• The Reminders list has been redesigned with grouped Overdue, Upcoming, and Resolved sections. Resolved reminders are hidden by default, and a new 3-dot menu lets you show or hide resolved reminders, resolve all overdue reminders at once, or delete all resolved reminders with confirmation.
• On iPhone and iPad, the plus button has moved to the bottom-left toolbar. Reminder icons now clearly indicate whether a reminder is overdue, upcoming, or resolved. To resolve or unresolve a reminder, use its context menu.
Slash Menu
• We added a Custom Reminder option to the slash menu and block Edit menu, making it faster to add reminders without leaving the keyboard.
• Reminder, table, and separator labels in the slash menu are now clearer too.
Tags
• Tags hidden in workspace settings no longer appear as badges in block previews.
Document Editing & Styling
• You can now drag colors, color pairs, hex strings, and images directly onto the styling panel and color targets. The dropped value applies immediately, without needing to open a picker.
• Math formulas now support non-Latin characters and symbols typed directly, including emojis. We also improved spacing around \dots to better match standard mathematical typesetting.
• On Mac, scrolling past a focused block no longer jumps back to it for certain block types.
Export
• Mermaid XY chart axis labels, titles, and legends now render correctly in PDF and PNG exports.
Assistant
• On Mac, you can now pin the Craft Assistant panel to the right side of the window so it stays open while you write. Drag it to snap, or use Pin to Side from the chat menu.
• The Assistant can now also reorder rows and columns in tables, including transposing tables or moving rows to the top.
• Card background colors set by the Assistant now preserve both light and dark variants correctly.

It’s been discussed before, but after a few image heavy projects I have a few thoughts. Here are the features I miss most.

- Resize images freely by selecting the image block and drag the corners. Any resulting white space on the sides should be kept empty.
- Add an option for right, center or left placement for images.
- Crop. I would like to crop images directly in Craft.
- Add thumbnail as an image size, to fit more images in a small space and get a better overview. Even better if a bunch of images can be toggled between regular size and thumbnails (similar to the dropdown triangle, but with preview thumbnails).

I was hoping whiteboards would solve my image problems, but I really need the images to be fully integrated with the texts.

Guys, I’m in doubt if I use the craft or bear and now?