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This week I had to remind somebody at work to save their file (using a tool I maintained years ago) from time to time. That’s something that always annoyed me: Explaining to others that unless you save your document from time to time, if the computer or software crashed, your changes will be gone. It annoys me because I know full well that it isn’t intuitive. Even file management isn’t intuitive either.

I can understand why in the past few years Apple has been phasing out the “Save” command from their software. Even on OS X, their own software simply auto-saves revisions automatically (essentially checkpoints of the undo buffer). Right now I’m using Mail and Gmail just because they auto-save drafts.

The POSIX-like core will always remain, but I greatly see the benefits of shielding users from this over-abused file system metaphor, with it’s folders and desktop. Give the UNIX shell for professionals, and stop pestering the rest with that control-s habit.