diff --git a/server/routes/api/documents/documents.test.ts b/server/routes/api/documents/documents.test.ts
index 1c35680930..ca364fb2f7 100644
--- a/server/routes/api/documents/documents.test.ts
+++ b/server/routes/api/documents/documents.test.ts
@@ -707,6 +707,49 @@ describe("#documents.list", () => {
     expect(body.data.length).toEqual(0);
   });
 
+  it("should return draft documents when filtering with statusFilter", async () => {
+    const user = await buildUser();
+    const document = await buildDraftDocument({
+      userId: user.id,
+      teamId: user.teamId,
+    });
+    const res = await server.post("/api/documents.list", user, {
+      body: {
+        statusFilter: [StatusFilter.Draft],
+      },
+    });
+    const body = await res.json();
+    expect(res.status).toEqual(200);
+    expect(body.data.length).toEqual(1);
+    expect(body.data[0].id).toEqual(document.id);
+    expect(body.pagination.total).toEqual(1);
+  });
+
+  it("should return drafts shared directly with the user", async () => {
+    const user = await buildUser();
+    const author = await buildUser({ teamId: user.teamId });
+    const document = await buildDraftDocument({
+      userId: author.id,
+      teamId: user.teamId,
+    });
+    await UserMembership.create({
+      documentId: document.id,
+      userId: user.id,
+      createdById: author.id,
+      permission: DocumentPermission.Read,
+    });
+    const res = await server.post("/api/documents.list", user, {
+      body: {
+        statusFilter: [StatusFilter.Draft],
+      },
+    });
+    const body = await res.json();
+    expect(res.status).toEqual(200);
+    expect(body.data.length).toEqual(1);
+    expect(body.data[0].id).toEqual(document.id);
+    expect(body.pagination.total).toEqual(1);
+  });
+
   it("should not return archived documents", async () => {
     const user = await buildUser();
     const document = await buildDocument({
diff --git a/server/routes/api/documents/documents.ts b/server/routes/api/documents/documents.ts
index 6928460dec..62b8eeeccd 100644
--- a/server/routes/api/documents/documents.ts
+++ b/server/routes/api/documents/documents.ts
@@ -243,6 +243,19 @@ router.post(
     }
 
     if (statusFilter?.includes(StatusFilter.Draft)) {
+      // Pre-fetch document IDs the user has a direct membership on so the
+      // filter can be expressed without referencing the (separately-loaded)
+      // memberships association, which would otherwise break the COUNT query.
+      const membershipDocumentIds = (
+        await UserMembership.findAll({
+          attributes: ["documentId"],
+          where: {
+            userId: user.id,
+            documentId: { [Op.ne]: null },
+          },
+        })
+      ).map((m) => m.documentId as string);
+
       statusQuery.push({
         [Op.and]: [
           {
@@ -255,7 +268,7 @@ router.post(
             [Op.or]: [
               // Only ever include draft results for the user's own documents
               { createdById: user.id },
-              { "$memberships.id$": { [Op.ne]: null } },
+              { id: membershipDocumentIds },
             ],
           },
         ],
@@ -292,12 +305,24 @@ router.post(
           : undefined
         : [[sort, direction]];
 
+    const includeDrafts = !!statusFilter?.includes(StatusFilter.Draft);
+
+    // The withDrafts scope drops the defaultScope filters, so re-apply the
+    // ones we still want — templates and trial-import documents should never
+    // appear in this listing.
+    if (includeDrafts) {
+      where[Op.and].push({
+        template: false,
+        sourceMetadata: { trial: { [Op.is]: null } },
+      });
+    }
+
     // When sorting by index, pagination is already handled by slicing documentIds,
     // so we skip the SQL-level offset to avoid double-pagination
     const { results: documents, pagination } = await paginateQuery(
       ctx,
       ({ offset: queryOffset, limit: queryLimit }) =>
-        Document.withMembershipScope(user.id).findAll({
+        Document.withMembershipScope(user.id, { includeDrafts }).findAll({
           where,
           order: orderClause as Order,
           offset: sort === "index" ? 0 : queryOffset,
@@ -306,7 +331,10 @@ router.post(
             documentIds,
           },
         }),
-      () => Document.count({ where })
+      () =>
+        Document.withMembershipScope(user.id, { includeDrafts }).count({
+          where,
+        })
     );
 
     const data = await presentDocuments(ctx, documents);