This is about the most recent version of LibreOffice on Windows 10. I can’t speak for other versions.
My daughter worked hard on her social studies essay. I type things in for her because she’s a really bad typist, but she tells me what to write… but I didn’t remember to manually save her social studies essay yesterday, and for some reason the ThinkPad rebooted, LibreOffice crashed and we lost the whole thing… because autosave was not automatically on when I installed it.
No, recovery didn’t work. We just got a blank file.
I rewrote it for her based on the information we had and what I remembered and tried to make it sound like what a 13-year-old would write because it was basically my fault and she did do the work. I did have her sit with me as I wrote it in case she didn’t like something I wrote, but it was sort of cheating. I’m okay with that cheating since I know she worked hard on it.
First, though, I went into the settings and turned on autosave.
I like LibreOffice, but why the hell is that not on automatically? Honestly, I don’t really understand why someone wouldn’t want their documents autosaved, but I’m pretty sure most people would want that.
This isn’t fucking 1993. I shouldn’t have to remember to save a document anymore and it shouldn’t be lost forever because of it.
Like I said, I like LibreOffice. I don’t really want to trust documents to Microsoft or Google. But this was really annoying.
Ok hear me out, what I’m gonna say is probably not the thing most people would like to hear but here I go:
To write things down, I use ghostwriter and it does have autosave feature. Sure, it’s just a markdown writer however it’s great for distraction-free writing too. You can just use ghostwriter to write things and if you still need it in an office document, you can copy-paste it into LibreOffice.
This is what I do with notepad++.
BBEdit for me.
Definitely checking this out later, been looking for a decent Markdown editor for a while
As a person who tried a lot of markdown editors, ghostwriter is my definite number one.
Yeah!! Didn’t expect to see ghostwriter mentioned here but it really is the best
Obsidian also.
What is the purpose of this vs just typing it in libreoffice? Genuine question, I just don’t understand the advantage/habit/whatever
Personally I only use ghostwriter if I need to do writing but I write this because ghostwriter has autosave feature (apparently LibreOffice also has this but I didn’t know about it until this thread, so is OP). However it’s still could be beneficial because of the format-free writing and a very clean user interface.