One of the complaints I hear often is that a customer will spend some time writing a document or creating an email only to have it disappear.  This is annoying and frustrating, of course!  In the early days of computers, this happened to me often.  I decided that I didn’t want to deal with the aggravation of losing fifteen or twenty minutes of work.  I forced myself to form a new habit – hitting the save icon, often.  

It took about three weeks for me to get myself to the point where I would not have to think about hitting the save icon.  Instead, I would automatically hit the SAVE – frequently, throughout a project. (Not just writing but photo and video projects, as well.)

Yes, it’s true that many programs and applications now have an autosave option and that’s a good thing.  Still, I continue with my regimented hitting of the save icon throughout a project.  I don’t mind losing the last sentence or two of something I’m writing or the final change to a video, I just don’t want to have to go back and start over from scratch.

By the way, sometimes people tell me that didn’t know you can save an email as you’re writing it.  You can!  Generally, an email will be saved in Drafts and updated there every time you hit save.

Do yourself a favor – retain your sanity when you’re creating some document or other project on your computing device: force yourself to hit the save icon frequently.  Keep doing so until it because automatic.  You won’t be sorry!