Imagine never saving ever again.
If you’ve ever lost a document and hours of work, your mantra has been “save early and often.” But OS X Lion is about to change all that. Because it saves automatically. So you don’t have to.
Auto Save
Work without worry.
Forget about manual saving and forge ahead with confidence. Auto Save in OS X Lion automatically saves your work, while you work, during pauses and every five minutes. And Lion saves changes in the background so you're never interrupted with progress bars.
See where you’ve been.
If you’re not happy with the changes you made, the Revert feature returns your document to the state it was in when you last opened it. So you can experiment freely, knowing you can always start again from the top.
Lock it down.
If you’re happy with where you are, you can lock your document to prevent inadvertent changes. If you try to change a locked document, Lion asks if you want to unlock it or use it as a template for a new document.
Get a head start.
The Duplicate feature creates a copy of your document and places it next to the original. So you can start a fresh version using the original as a template.
Versions
See every step you took.
It’s only natural that a document goes through many changes as it’s being created. OS X Lion automatically creates a new version of a document each time you open it and every hour while you’re working on it. You can also create snapshots of a document manually whenever you like. With an interface similar to that of Time Machine, Versions shows you the current document next to a cascade of previous versions.
Compare, copy, and share.
Click the timeline to see how your work looked at any given time in previous versions. Click a version to see it in its entirety. Copy and paste between versions or revert to an earlier version of the document. And when you share a document with someone, you share only the most recent copy, not all the hard work it took to get there.
