Draft Versions: snapshots you take on purpose
⌘K (Ctrl+K), then Save Draft Version stores a snapshot of the whole screenplay at this moment. The command's hint shows how many versions you have saved so far.
⌘K, then Draft Versions opens the comparison view: pick any saved version and read it beside the current draft. Nothing is applied automatically. It is a reading room, not a merge tool.
When to snapshot: before a restructure, before importing over changes, at the end of any draft you might want to show someone later. Snapshots are cheap; regret is not.
Draft Desk: write beside an older draft
Switch to Draft Desk in the top bar (or ⌘K, then Draft Desk). The desk puts a source draft on one side and your working draft on the other:
1. Press Load Source and choose the older draft you are rewriting from.
2. Browse its scene list. From a source scene you can Insert scene (add it after your current position in the working draft) or Replace live scene (swap it in for the scene you are on, deliberately, one scene at a time).
3. Write in the working draft pane as normal; both panes show their own page status.
4. Save Working Draft snapshots your progress. Start Clean Rewrite begins a fresh working draft beside the source when you want to retype rather than patch.
The live screenplay is never replaced wholesale. Material only moves when you insert or replace it explicitly.
Scene History: previous versions of one scene
⌘K, then Scene History shows earlier versions of the scene you are currently in, drawn from your saved draft versions. Read them side by side and bring back the version you need. Useful when a scene was better two drafts ago and you know it.
Cut Bin
Every block you cut (⌘Backspace, or deleting a fully selected block) lands in the Cut Bin instead of disappearing. ⌘K, then Cut Bin lists your recoverable cuts (the command's hint shows the count); restore anything you want back.
Cutting material should feel like setting it down, not dropping it off a cliff. Cut freely; the bin has your back.
How the four fit together
- Cut Bin catches what you remove, block by block.
- Scene History recovers a scene's past.
- Draft Versions preserves whole-draft moments.
- Draft Desk lets a new draft grow beside an old one without endangering either.
All of it is stored in the INTX project file, so Save INTX after a heavy rewrite session keeps the safety net in the file you own.