Autosave vs Manual Save

Users debate the merits of autosave features versus explicit save buttons in applications, discussing reliability, UI clarity, user trust, and experiences with tools like Excalidraw and Google Docs.

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FileSystemFileHandle e.g UX OK FireFox OS README UI save auto button file saving saves files atom want save app

Sample Comments

keikobadthebad Oct 27, 2024 View on HN

Mightn't it be better to actually just autosave?

bhaak Sep 11, 2018 View on HN

If you save after every change why don't you use an auto save feature?

mackrevinack Oct 27, 2019 View on HN

yea theres an option to save after every change

DieBuche Jan 25, 2015 View on HN

It does autosave (although as you mention the UI is not very clear on this)

tombot Nov 8, 2025 View on HN

Why isn’t there autosaving? Why go to all this effort to make such a hostile UX?

alvarlagerlof Oct 14, 2021 View on HN

Sounds like you have auto save on.

ugh Nov 12, 2011 View on HN

Save as doesn’t make sense if the app auto-saves.

fiores Feb 2, 2021 View on HN

How does it save the files? I don't see a save button.Can it autosave?

waitingkuo Oct 19, 2014 View on HN

I think we need a save/load button or the auto-save feature

lantry Jul 27, 2023 View on HN

these days, most of my tools autosave