On Mar 20, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Todd Diemer wrote:
Jeff G. and Jerome R. have a good point here about a continuous save, snapshot save, or checkpoints. Could we remove the save button completely if these checkpoints were constantly saved ala Gmail or other apps that save drafts on a regular basis. The user would then only be required to set a period between which they want saves to occur.
Except checkpoint versions are wanted after significant actions, or at the end of work periods, which don't have any direct connection with set time periods. And in fact, people should generally want a finite, controllable number of checkpoint versions, rather than (say) six new ones per work day, which could get out of hand on a lengthy project. And checkpoint versions aren't of much use unless they are annotated so the user knows what he's rolling back to. The user still needs to control the big stage points manually.
These would work as intermediate generic checkpoints, though -- super autosaves, as it were -- to free users from the need to make checkpoint versions at less important stages. You'd presumably erase them at the next manual checkpoint.
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