Post Saving Methods

[James Knight]

Post your methods for saving posts here.

[Jim Raynor]

MS Word. I write everything in it first in case my PC/Chrome/site crashes while I'm working on it and I save constantly. Then I just copy/paste into the post and keep the document until I write my next post.

[The Vision]

Email. I email them to myself. My last ten emails include 2 PM notifications and 8 drafts of posts.

[Ash Williams]

MS Word. I write everything in it first in case my PC/Chrome/site crashes while I'm working on it and I save constantly. Then I just copy/paste into the post and keep the document until I write my next post.

I do the same thing and save it so many times because after when I installed windows ten over a year ago, my computer will just restart out of nowhere without any warnings about an update. I don't even think it updates when it restarts on its own.

[Omni]

MS Word. I write everything in it first in case my PC/Chrome/site crashes while I'm working on it and I save constantly. Then I just copy/paste into the post and keep the document until I write my next post.

This. It's the safest method; even if your computer crashes it will often recover what you've written. It autosaves too.

Ctrl+S while writing is like a nervous twitch for me.

I also like to keep a copy of everything I've written, so this does it automatically rather than trying to find and save everything I've written later. I have an Omniverse writing folder, and within that a folder for each verse.

[Trixie]

I make a new word document for every post. I have word documents going back to 2008.

[King Ghidorah]

I am all over the place. Half the time I do a word document, the rest of the time I write in G-docs, the rest of the time I just leave a tab open and write on-site. Chrome's 'recently closed' history function saves anything you happen to have typed on the page in the event of a crash or a restart, so its less risky than it sounds, though lately is has been starting to bother me that I don't have locally stored copies of a bunch of my writing.

[Amaterasu]

I typically use GDocs or MS Word when writing a post and copy-paste it at the very end, but if I can't use either for whatever reason I can also PM it to myself.

[Simon]

I usually just use Notepad. Does what it needs to do, plus I don't use formatting so much anymore.

[Arle Nadja]

Mozilla has this thing called an etherpad. It's like google docs but with all the tedium removed. Your etherpad is basically a text file in a browser that you and anyone you give the URL to can edit. No logins, just an URL you can bookmark or remember. I have mine open pretty much constantly and copy stuff/write stuff in there when I need to transfer it between PCs or make sure it is safe. It has a "timeslider" feature that allows you to roll the pad back to every auto save its ever made (pretty much any edit you make is recorded) which basically makes vandalism both irrelevant and rare (because it's pointless)

It works really well for me! I keep stuff I use more frequently such as a character's unique dialogue font color in a notepad/pastebin file though.

[Alex]

MSWord + Dropbox = Winning