Next up, Apple’s showing off its new feature in Lion, Resume.
Now when you launch an app in Lion, it brings you back to where you were when you quit. It remembers palettes, windows, etc, and works system wide.
Working in conjunction with Auto Save, this could be a game changer. OS X Lion will now automatically save your documents in the background without you having to do anything.
If you zoom in on the title bar of your document, the name of your document is now a menu that you can tap on. A menu pops up that lets you Lock, Duplicate, Revert to Last Opened, or Browser All Versions.
Autosave works in conjunction with Versioning in Lion, which means all together, you never have to worry about losing your work, or overwriting it with something inferior. Just browse the versions and you get a Time Machine like interface of all the past changes, which you can even cut and paste between.
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4 responses to “Lion’s New Resume, Autosave and Versioning Means You’ll Never Lose Your Work Again [WWDC 2011]”
My only question about this…is it iWorks-specific? Or will it work with other apps, like…Text Wrangler or Libre/OpenOffice?
I think it will work with other apps but the question is if software developers would have to implement it through an accessible API in Lion or if Lion applies it automatically. I dunno if Lion can apply versioning, resume and autosave correctly by itself so I’m leaning with the former.