Draft Mode: Because project reviews should work the way you do

Project reviews are full of moments that need a closer look.

Something on a drawing doesn’t look quite right. A coordination meeting raises a question. A detail needs checking against the model. You might add a markup to work through it, only to find that no further action is needed.

That is part of the review process. Not every observation needs to become a tracked issue the moment it is identified. Some need more context. Some change as the review develops. And some don’t need to be tracked at all.

The challenge is having somewhere to do that work without taking it outside the project environment.

Not everything starts with an issue

Issue tracking is built for information that needs to go somewhere. An issue can be located, assigned, communicated, tracked and ultimately resolved.

But there is valuable work before that point.

When there isn’t an easy way to capture an early observation within the coordination workflow, the alternative is often whatever is quickest or most familiar: a PDF markup, screenshot, whiteboard or personal note.

That might solve the immediate need, but creates more work later. Does this need to be brought back into the coordination platform? What context needs to come with it? Is it still relevant?

That takes time and creates more opportunity for important context or detail to be missed along the way.

Draft Mode introduces a better way to work.

Draft first. Decide later.

Draft Mode gives users the flexibility to capture and refine observations as drafts, then decide what needs to be shared and tracked.

Users can create markup drafts directly in 2D and issue drafts in either 2D or 3D. Existing issue markups can also be edited privately before changes are published.

Drafts are saved locally and remain private to their author, so observations or changes aren’t visible to the wider project team.

As the review develops, so can the draft. Users can add detail, reconsider what they’ve captured and decide what, if anything, needs to be taken forward. A draft can then become a tracked, located issue, or simply be discarded.

Keep the thinking with the project

Draft Mode isn’t simply about delaying when an issue gets created. It is about keeping more of the work that happens before issue creation connected to the project.

For users, it provides the flexibility to work through observations without every note or markup immediately becoming part of that workflow.

For the wider project team, that means the information entering the shared coordination workflow is ready to be communicated and tracked.

Some observations need to be tracked. Others don’t. Draft Mode gives users the flexibility to decide.

Get started

Draft Mode is available now in Revizto 5.18.

Existing customers can visit the Revizto Help Center to learn how to start using Draft Mode.

New to Revizto? See how Draft Mode can support your project review and coordination workflows. Book a call with one of our experts.