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I can't say I'm widely traveled, I have no idea how desktop Office works, but Apple does this so well. Using their desktop apps, Pages, Keynote, Numbers, TextEdit, Preview, I never hit "Save". I just close the apps. When I come back, the windows reopen right where I left off. I wish emacs did this. I honestly don't know what it would be like for a code editor to be "constantly saving". I guess I would adapt, but there are times when I do all sorts of changes and go "Ah, this isn't right" and just kill the buffer. The ultimate undo. But there's a great feeling, to me, when I go to close the app (or shutdown the computer) and it just closes. No prompts, no warnings, just saves its state, shuts down, and comes back later. And with the ever popular "naming things" issue of computers, I have a bunch of just "Untitled" windows. They're there when I open the app, and that's all I need to know. The nag factor and cognitive load reduction of that is just unmatched. "Just deal with it, I'll come back later, maybe, and clean it up". One less thing. |