> If you scribble something on a napkin, and leave it on your desk, the desk doesn't demand you name the napkin when you try to leave the house Maybe if they d

> If you scribble something on a napkin, and leave it on your desk, the desk doesn't demand you name the napkin when you try to leave the house Maybe if they did, my desk wouldn't be so untidy right now. The save/discard/cancel dialogs are there for a reason: the computer doesn't know whether you want to save or discard! "Keep everything" is not a solution. Usually I will keep about 50% of the "unattached" files I create. Some will be good ideas: they get saved. Some will be go nowhere: I throw those away. For files attached to a project it's more like 100% -- so they should be named upfront on creation. Besides, doing something "at your leisure" is a euphemism for never doing it at all. People are difficult like that.