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> Third Improvement: Versioning Regardless of SQLite, why don't modern productivity tools include at least an option to automatically version documents, ie sto
by bambax 9y ago
> Third Improvement: Versioning
Regardless of SQLite, why don't modern productivity tools include at least an option to automatically version documents, ie store documents as a series of diffs that one could browse up to the start?
Of course in many cases, edit history is better kept hidden, so this should not be the default. But why doesn't it exist at all?
- hoov 9y agoDifficult, but possible. We did this with Buzzword at Adobe. The hardest part was the UX, honestly. Most knowledge workers need some hand holding, to say nothing of teachers and students (we had success selling to high school teachers).
- kccqzy 9y agoI think Apple introduced this in 10.7: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202255 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202255 IMO this is better handled by the OS than by each individual app.
- da_chicken 9y agoThe typical excuse is file space. The next excuse is privacy/security concerns. The next excuse is usually that other tools do it better (SharePoint, svn, git) for the types of files that really matter. MS Word has a Track Changes feature that kind of does this, and it's a pain because you have to remember to remove the revision history before you publish the document because it can expose details about the users that edited the document.