Nows and Forevers

I just lost a whole day’s worth of writing, thanks to an assumption I made about auto-saving.

A rookie mistake.

There I was, writing in my interstitial (or so) journal, beginning about 7:30 a.m. and then continuing through the early afternoon. I had probably 1,500 words, along with a draft for a blog post. I was using a new Chromebook, which I haven’t used before this weekend. But I was enjoying running it alongside my MacBook.

Then, I accidentally bumped the Chromebook’s side. Apparently that rebooted it. When it finally came back, both files and every word I had written, was gone.

To be fair, I was working in offline mode, as I wasn’t near WiFi. But I also expected the work to save every once in a while, and I also build automatic saving stops into my workflow after learning the hard way, years and years ago. I was using the Chromebook text app, not Google Docs, which I know does auto save.

Look, it’s not life-changing stuff, just notes to myself and the beginnings of a blog post. But it is a little unnerving.