And then you're like, "So why DOESN'T desktop software automatically save every time something changes?"https://twitter.com/josh_caratelli/status/1238726104711495680 …
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"Instead of keeping your work safe, I've been stacking it up on the edge of this incinerator for the past hour. Now, are you ABSOLUTELY SURE you don't want to incinerate it all? Last chance!"pic.twitter.com/dAgftlazcJ
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Making it so that hitting Save trashes your undo history is another absolutely indefensible design decision in desktop softwarehttps://twitter.com/HorseboyTFE/status/1238762876871081985 …
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I'd go further: why doesn't it save the undo/redo stacks along with the document? What if I made a mistake, saved, quit, then realised? Why shouldn't I be able to open it back up and undo?
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The key thing there would be to have a clearly understood "export" option for when you wanted to send to someone else and minimise a) file size, and b) their access to your past versions. Very doable, though.
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Jef Raskin was correct on the idea of universal undo, as he was on most interface ideas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy#Universal_undo …
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Wow, what software does this? I've been away from the awfulness of popular desktop software since before that was a thing...
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Is this why Apple macOS applications are annoyingly persistent compared to more traditional applications?
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