For more than 25 years, I was using 'easyPC' on DOS (not on Windows) to draw both the schematics and layouts. You might smile when you hear why I couldn't leave it since long and worked with a more professional program instead. It was simply for the ability to have a draft area on the schematic and layout sheets (actually the whole sheet might be seen as draft, since EasyPC was just a drawing program). But that helped me a lot to think freely on any new project. Because I didn't need to delete anything while I was trying different ways to find the best solution for the critical parts of a new circuit.
Although it is rather impossible to import my hundreds schematics and layouts drawn with 'DOS easyPC' to 'KiCAD', I have decided lately to work with KiCAD from now on. It is both friendly and powerful and most important... alive, thanks to many KiCAD professional members and users. But I still have a dream that someday a KiCAD project would be allowed to have, in the least, one draft sheet (one for eeschema and perhaps another one for PCBnew) that all its items are ignored during any requested process. For example in case of 'eeschema', the sheet in a hierarchy project that has no outside connection could be treated as a Draft Sheet. I think that solution will be rather very simple to be implemented but all users will surely love it (by having an area on which they are free to do whatever they like).
