When you close an untitled window, Textmode doesn’t ask where to save it. It keeps the text as a draft in the Closed Drafts folder, and you can open the draft again later.
Documents that you have already saved to a file close the way they always do.
Go to the Textmode app
on your Mac.
In an untitled window, choose File > Close.
The window closes with no Save dialog, and its text is kept as a draft.
A window that holds nothing but spaces, tabs, or empty lines closes without leaving a draft.
Note: If Textmode can’t write the draft, it shows the standard Save dialog instead, so the text is not lost.
Open the most recent draft: Choose File > Reopen Closed Draft. Textmode opens the newest draft that isn’t already open, so you can choose the command again to open the one before it.
See all drafts: Choose File > Show Closed Drafts. The Closed Drafts folder opens in the Finder, where you can open, move, or delete drafts.
If there is no draft to open, Reopen Closed Draft plays the alert sound.
Each draft is a plain text file in UTF-8, named after the window and the time you closed it, for example “Untitled 3 (2026-10-02 14.30.05).txt”. A new draft never replaces an earlier one.
Textmode doesn’t limit the number of drafts and doesn’t delete them. A draft stays in the Closed Drafts folder until you delete it yourself.
Choose Textmode > Settings, then click General.
Select or deselect Keep Closed Untitled Documents.
The setting is on by default. When it is off, Textmode asks whether to save when you close an untitled window, and nothing is added to Closed Drafts.
When “Reopen windows from last session” is selected in General settings, untitled windows that are open when you quit Textmode open again with their text the next time you open the app.