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Even in systems that continously save your progress there is a close analogue to manual save: Named revisions. Bookmarks of points in history that are better th
by im3w1l 5y ago
Even in systems that continously save your progress there is a close analogue to manual save: Named revisions. Bookmarks of points in history that are better than the surrounding ones - points where some milestone has been reached, and some amount of proofreading done. Where there are no duplicated paragraphs or major rough edges like that.
- codetrotter 5y agoBut the floppy icon would not be a good fit for depicting named revisions
- gumby 5y agoSure, it’s copying your revision to a disk, writing the date on the label, and sticking it in a box.
- jcims 5y agoThe only difference between what is being described here and what we have been working with until today is how far undo/redo go. For the most part the intent is to memorialize a snapshot of the work, a task the floppy icon has been fulfilling all along.
- dylan604 5y agoIf the current document is Untitled, New File, No Name, etc and does not actually point to a file, then the ubiquitous Floppy icon should act as Save As. Once the file does exist, a simple Shift-click of the same floppy icon should also act as Save As. Same thing as Cmd-S/Cmd-Shfit-S. However, I'm unfamiliar with this modifier click save as from any app.