What Best Work Practice for Timestamped Backups?

I am working with a master spreadsheet document that I want always to have the same name.
But whilst/after working on it I want to save versions of it that I can look back to.
Just the same way screenshots are saved with timestamps.
Doing the normal ‘save as’ is cumbersome.
I have to save (say) today’s version as ‘master’ to keep all changes and then I have to save again as ‘master today’ to have my version on disk and then to continue working on the master I have to close what’s now current: ‘master today’ and pick up ‘master’ again.

I have been trying the file/versions thing but I don’t get it.
It says everything is saved ‘in the same file’.
Like a record of edits.
I think that must be what it does.
I can find no saved ‘versions’ on the hard drive.

That’s not what I want/need. I want a string of saved versions on my hard drive.
The screenshot thing is the best analogy I can think of. I do take screenshots in fact and they’re good but of course can’ be worked on.

I need a keypress that saves a timestamped copy.

Is such a feature available or can someone help with how I can code it up?

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right on the money. works beaut. thankyou. :slight_smile:

The Timestamp Backup extension seems to meet your needs.

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Or, for manual method, File > Save a Copy

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i’m using that plugin. save copy seems to require me to input a filename every time… maybe something wrong with my config maybe… :frowning: but this other thing seems to do the job.