# Revising a draft by instruction — a step-by-step guide

You do not have to rewrite it yourself. Tell the assistant in one sentence what is wrong and it rewrites the draft — in draften, or right in your mailbox.

**Before you start**

- **A draft that waits** — You can revise a draft that is waiting to be sent.
- **One sentence** — What is missing or wrong. The assistant needs nothing more.
- **About a minute** — That is how long the new text usually takes.

## Step 1 of 6: Open Drafts

On the screen: draften's side menu.

Do this: Click **Drafts** in the side menu. You will see every reply the assistant has written.

## Step 2 of 6: Pick the draft that is not right

On the screen: The list of drafts. Each shows its subject, who it is for and what state it is in.

Do this: Click the subject of the draft you want to change — for example **Price enquiry**.

> Note: A draft can be revised while it is **waiting to be sent** or was written in **trial mode**. Once sent or deleted, the assistant leaves it alone.

## Step 3 of 6: Write what the assistant should change

On the screen: The draft's text on the left, **Revise the draft** on the right.

Do this: In **What the assistant should change** write one sentence about what is wrong or missing. Plain words are enough, as if you were telling a colleague.

> Note: Say what to change, not the whole new text: “Add that the price applies until the end of the year.” The assistant starts from the draft as it is now — if you have already edited it yourself, your edits stay.

## Step 4 of 6: Have the draft revised

On the screen: Below your instruction there is a button.

Do this: Click **Revise**. The assistant rewrites the draft within a moment — in the same place, in your mailbox as well as here.

> Careful: A revised draft does not send itself. You still send it, from your own mail.

## Step 5 of 6: Check the new text

On the screen: The draft now contains the change. Your instruction has joined the list of revisions on the right.

Do this: Read the draft again. If it is still not right, write another instruction — as many times as you like. Under each instruction, **What changed** shows the difference from the previous text.

## Step 6 of 6: The same from your mail program

On the screen: Below the **Revise** button there is a note on doing it without draften.

Do this: In Outlook or Gmail open the draft, write the assistant's name on the **first line** — here `@tomas` — and your instruction after it. **Save the draft, do not send it**, and close it. The assistant revises it at the next mail check.

> Note: You will find your assistant's name in **Settings → The basics**, field **What to call it in a draft**.

**Done** — The assistant has rewritten the draft. Sending it is still up to you, from your own mail.

- **The instruction is kept** — draften remembers it and takes it into account when it proposes lessons. If you keep correcting the same thing, Learning will offer it to you as a rule.
- **As often as you like** — One draft can take any number of instructions in a row.
- **Correcting the same thing again and again?** — Then the change belongs in the Instructions or Knowledge, not in every draft.