Sync drafts between clients

[Lykos153]

Your use case

What would you like to do?

Start writing a draft on one client and continue it on a different client

Why would you like to do it?

I often start writing on mobile and then, when I realize the message is going to be longer, I switch to desktop because there it's easier to type and edit.

How would you like to achieve it?

By storing the (encrypted) draft on the server, maybe upon closing.

Have you considered any alternatives?

1. Send the unfinished message and complete or edit it from a different client. => Maybe I don't want the receiver to read it in unfinished state
2. Send the unfinished message to myself. => 2x Copy, Switch room and then paste is cumbersome
3. Finish this one message on the same device. Continue the conversation on the more convenient device
4. Re-type everything from memory / copy it by hand

Additional context

Definitely not a showstopper, but a feature that'd be really nice to have

[t3chguy]

This won't work very well until all clients use a common markdown/input dialect, Web uses Commonmark, Android uses plaintext by default but can be switched into GFM. Using different composition dialects entirely changes the representation of the message

[t3chguy]

Don't think this needs spec changes, can/should probably just be an io.element room-account data thing

[SISheogorath]

In order to improve privacy, would it be possible to implement this as encrypted event using direct client-to-client messages (like the ones used for key exchange) regardless of the room encryption state?

[Mguiteria]

Yes

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