File a proposal
A proposal is a record you sign and every node replicates. This creates the network's half — the one that carries the actual text — and opens it for voting straight away.
Connect a wallet to file a proposal. It is signed by that wallet and gossiped to every node under its peer id — there is no anonymous filing and no way to withdraw the text once it has spread.
The key every node stores this under, network-wide and first come first served. It is also what is hashed to join this proposal to an on-chain one, fixed at creation and never amendable — so it cannot be corrected later.
What you are proposing and why. Stored by every node forever and readable by anyone.
The network's own categories. They are not the governance program's — the chain has a different set, and its quorum and threshold rules key on that one.
Only if you have already created the chain-side proposal, which takes a stake deposit in OPEN and is a separate transaction. Naming it here signs your half of the join; the program's link_offchain_proposal is the other half, and until both exist nothing about the chain's tally is attributed to this proposal.
Voting opens immediately and runs for the protocol's default period of seven days. There is no draft state off chain: discussion and technical review happen on a forum, not as gossiped protocol events, so a proposal is filed when it is ready to be voted on.