Close a window without saving and get it back in Textmode on Mac

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.

Close an untitled window

  1. Go to the Textmode app on your Mac.

  2. 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 a closed draft again

If there is no draft to open, Reopen Closed Draft plays the alert sound.

What is kept and for how long

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.

Turn keeping drafts on or off

  1. Choose Textmode > Settings, then click General.

  2. 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.

Untitled windows when you quit

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.

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