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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 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.



But the floppy icon would not be a good fit for depicting named revisions


If 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.


The 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.


Sure, it’s copying your revision to a disk, writing the date on the label, and sticking it in a box.




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