Create temporary vector layers

[FranzLeonardo]

I would like ArcGIS Pro to have the option/button to create temporary layers (points, lines or polygons). It would be very handy when we don't want to create a permanent file if we only want to draw something temporarily.
P.S. The ‘New Temporary Scratch Layer’ button in QGIS if it was in ArcGIS would be perfect.

[SSWoodward]

Thanks for this idea.  Do you ever use the memory workspace?

Creating feature classes and tables in the memory workspace will save you from writing them to disk.

[FranzLeonardo]

@SSWoodward thank you, it is also useful, but as an end-user you always prefer things that are simpler and at hand, without the need to go through a few steps.

[AlfredBaldenweck]

Yeah, I was actually thinking about this recently-- I tried using one of those geoprocessing tools where you can draw on the map to like, set the extent or something, and I was dismayed to find that I got saddled with what should have just been a throwaway featureclass clogging up my default file gdb.

[KoryKramer]

@FranzLeonardo You could add a graphics layer to create temporary points, lines, polygons... This doesn't create features in a database, and when you're done, if you need to, just remove the graphics layer.

[FranzLeonardo]

@KoryKramer but it's not the same, there you can't calculate geometries and you don't have the potential of vector layers, even temporarily, for example in QGIS I love that option, especially when I teach or lecture.