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One of the benefits of using a desktop weblog editor is crash protection.

Say you’re writing a post in your browser, and your browser crashes. The post is gone.

Say you’re writing in MarsEdit instead. You can save as a draft periodically so you can prevent a crash from losing your post.

But—even more—MarsEdit automatically recovers your post in the event of a crash, even if you didn’t save it as a draft. When you re-launch MarsEdit it will re-open the post or posts you were working on.

I concur: MarsEdit has saved my posts a couple of times already. It’s not only a matter of MarsEdit crashing: if my mac crashes for some reason while I am working on a post (or have a post waiting to be posted in the background), MarsEdit saves the day. Brent has done a very good job with it.

Now the big question: why isn’t there more text-processing applications implementing auto-save?

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