Hi,
I really love LibreOffice (and I depend on it even so much that I run it parallel with MS Office at work!)
I may be in the wrong place, but I have a feature request:
I’d love a feature where LibreOffice saves files automatically.
NO I do not mean recovery information.
I mean, save the actual files.
Because… who sits around for hours typing just get up and dump the whole work?
Users WANTS the thing they type in to stick.
Have a look at Scrivener. It saves data whenever the user stops typing for more than 2 seconds.
If it was possible, I’d love to have every single key punch go straight to disk (although I can understand if that’d be the death of the disk or something…)
I use drop box and daily backups with versioning to be able to go back to old versions. I also save new versions of my documents such as “MyDoc1” “MyDoc2” etc. So I have a hard time seeing the need to not save data as often as possible.
The only reason I don’t save my data is because I get enthusiastic and forget. It is NOT good that users have to feel enthusiasm equals a risk of loosing your work… that means you’re using the wrong tool!
For all I’m concerned, dump the whole “Save-button-thing” in the trashcan and just save the data I type in. You don’t really need my input to figure out that I want to save as often as possible! The save button/function feels like it belongs to the previous generation of office software!
But sure, make it a check box if there are users that doesn’t want their changes to stick…
Thanks for a great product (when I remember to ctrl-S)!
/Erik