@lilacse
There is NOTHING worse than losing hard work, especially if one thinks it's a masterpiece. It's only masterpieces that disappear. There must be a gremlin that's dedicated to that sort of thing. I hate it when I'm in the middle of something and either the system crashes (which happens with big docs on a PC), or the lights go out or I forget to name and save the file. I try to do that as a matter of course! Don't work on linux and I do like the auto recover and previous versions options for MS apps....
If it's any comfort, I've had the same experience as you: brilliant post and then - poof!
Remember you own advice ;)
one more save to be safe
Fiona
Not sure if I should say it but if your word processing app crashes when dealing with reasonably big files, you might want to consider a better word processor...Working on Linux is not only a preference for me anymore :) got a little too attached to it. But we do have good options for writing! There are a list of markdown editors that look good and autosaves files as well. Probably should check out some of them (and make posts about them because why not?) :D
You are right. However, the monopoly exists and it's what the "universe" seems to use. So... That said, I am using Google docs more and more. Haven't explored all their functionalities yet.
:D
You know, sometimes the "universe" can be wrong...it happens all the time :P
Google Docs is like a basic version of Microsoft Word but with nice cloud capabilities, and can be very useful if you know how to put it to good use. Like, ignore making additional savefiles or copies because you can just revert a file if you mess up or accidentally sleep with your head on the keyboard...yeah, sometimes it happens :>