Hashnode Share Draft Feature - Write Better Articles
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Improve the quality of your articles with peer feedback

this is a great read with valuable lessons
Thanks for sharing! This will definitely prove useful in my next few articles 😅
I used this with my latest article with my sister and my colleagues to ensure I didn't publish any company information. Really useful tool, since it's pretty much what you'd see.
One feature my sister did miss out when reviewing was not being able to comment on where my spelling mistakes or grammar mistakes are, and we had to revert to using Google Docs for large edits.
Glad to hear that! And thank you for the feedback, I passed it further! 🙏
Regarding grammar/spelling mistakes, you could use a service like Grammarly or The Hemingway Editor rather than relying on someone to pinpoint the mistakes. Those apps are more effective because they are less likely to miss stuff. This is what I do and it works great! 😊
That's really a great feature. I never tried that before. Thanks for the detailed article Catalin Pit
Happy to help! Let me know if you have any suggestions after you use it for a while! 🙏
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When you write an article on your Hashnode blog, you have the ability to share a draft preview of your article.
That means you can share your article with selected people before publishing it and making it available to the public.
The feature comes automatically with all Hashnode blogs, so you do not have to enable it. Thus, let's see how sharing drafts can help your writing!
The draft feature helps a lot because you can get objective reviews from people about your articles.
They are more likely to spot mistakes, inconsistencies, and issues since they are "coming from outside". When you write the article, you are more invested emotionally in it, and you are less likely to spot them.
In my case, I share drafts with friends before I publish the articles in 90% of the cases. Sharing the drafts and getting feedback helped me improve my writing because what is obvious to me, it's not to other people.
The reverse is helpful as well. Reading other people's drafts and providing feedback helped me as well.
Let's see some of the benefits of receiving and giving feedback:
Of course, these are the vital benefits of offering and receiving feedback. But there are other benefits, and if you know any, I would love to see them!
When you write the article in the Hashnode editor, you should see at the top of the page an option saying "Share draft".
When you click on it, you have two options:
Figure 1 illustrates the feature and what you should see.

Figure 1
If you "preview draft", the new page opens, and it will have a URL such as https://hashnode.com/preview/60dpod3e68364a2e7b2cfe5b.
Another nice thing is that you have a comment box at the bottom of the page. People can leave comments suggesting improvements and other things. Once the article is published, the draft comments are removed.
Thus, you can get feedback straight on the draft. That removes friction points such as getting feedback on your email or any other place.
In figure 2, below, you can see how a draft preview looks like.

Figure 2
Generally, you can share the drafts with fellow writers or friends. Then, you can return the favour by providing feedback on their articles.
However, there is an alternative. The Hashnode's Discord server has a special channel for people to share their drafts. If you are on the Discord server, search for the channel #drafts. If not, you can join the server using this link.
Thus, Hashnode bloggers can receive and provide feedback. It's important to help others if you want others to help you. So try to read other blogger's drafts and suggest feedback as well.
Sharing your drafts is a great feature, and you are missing out if you do not use it. It can help you improve your writing tremendously.