Untitled Document Syndrome

Scenario: You have an idea for something, start a new document in an appropriate app, and then work for hours before realizing you haven’t yet saved the document? Typically, it’s a chuckle–ha, guess I should save this thing. Occasionally, it’s a disaster, because you only realize you hadn’t yet saved your work when the app crashes or the power goes out.

I’ve had the disastrous version happen a few times over the years. What strikes me as odd, though, is that I still catch myself doing it occasionally. I call it “Untitled Document Syndrome,” because when I catch myself doing it, it’s almost always with a new untitled document window, not an existing file with unsaved changes. All subsequent saves after the first one require nothing more than a quick Command-S.

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