Feature reqeust: Autosave

[bullpup]

At the moment, you have to manually save or close a note. It would be nice if an open note would be saved automatically say every 10 seconds.

[micred]

I agree! I loose an important note because I doesn't close the note window. It's frustrating! I think that save button should be totally removed and should be added an auto save feature that saves to disk synchronously (with a reasonable delay) and to Evernote servers with the delay already specified in settings.

[lightnin]

Couldn't agree more. A pesky intel display driver bug forces me to restart periodically. If I haven't manually saved, my changes are toast. An autosave setting would really help. Thanks for making this great free software!

[ravemir]

I also push for this feature. Especially since every other client has it (including the web version), and causes unnecessary mistakes upon users.

Please consider implementing it in the near future.

[lightnin]

After first installing everpad, I just assumed it was autosaving, and left several notes open all the time in the background. Because of a bug, I had to kill Xorg a few times, and as a result I lost quite a few edits.

[luisdavim]

I'm also for this feature! :)

[philmcmahon]

This would be great. I just had a failed hibernation and lost a fairly large note.

[e2jk]

What about just plainly removing the save button, and autosave would be the default? e.g. save each 10s, or after 2s of inactivity. Would reduce the number of clicks needed: people wouldn't uselessly click save before closing (as they might not have realized, or trust, that closing a note will save it - I know I didn't, and had to test it out)

[micred]

I absolutly agree with @e2jk, would be perfect. And more usable.

[Morgenkaff]

I would love auto save too.

[royts]

+1

[helloravi]

This is extremely important. Loosing your written work is one of the most frustrating thing that could happen. Is there anything I can do to help with this one?

[rmongia]

I have created a custom patch for myself to have this feature in my everpad.

From: Ramandeep Singh <rmongia@....>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:27:45 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Add Automatic save support in editor
- spawns every 10s
- does not send notifications for auto-save
---
 everpad/pad/editor/__init__.py |   15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/everpad/pad/editor/__init__.py b/everpad/pad/editor/__init__.py
index 3e52e24..455c30c 100644
--- a/everpad/pad/editor/__init__.py
+++ b/everpad/pad/editor/__init__.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ from PySide.QtGui import (
     QMainWindow, QIcon, QMessageBox, QAction,
     QShortcut, QKeySequence, QApplication,
 )
-from PySide.QtCore import Slot
+from PySide.QtCore import Slot, QBasicTimer
 from everpad.interface.editor import Ui_Editor
 from everpad.pad.tools import get_icon
 from everpad.pad.editor.actions import FindBar
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ class Editor(QMainWindow):  # TODO: kill this god shit
         self.logger.addHandler(fh)

         self.app = QApplication.instance()
+        self.timer = QBasicTimer()
         self.note = note
         self.closed = False
         self.ui = Ui_Editor()
@@ -51,6 +52,11 @@ class Editor(QMainWindow):  # TODO: kill this god shit
         if geometry:
             self.restoreGeometry(geometry)
         self.resource_edit.note = note
+        self.timer.start(10000, self)
+
+    def timerEvent(self, event):
+        if self.touched:
+            self.save(notify=False)

     def init_controls(self):
         self.ui.menubar.hide()
@@ -191,8 +197,7 @@ class Editor(QMainWindow):  # TODO: kill this god shit
         self.setWindowTitle(self.tr('Everpad / %s') % title)

     @Slot()
-    def save(self):
-        self.logger.debug('Saving note: "%s"' % self.note.title)
+    def save(self, notify = True):
         self.mark_untouched()
         self.update_note()
         self.app.provider.update_note(self.note.struct)
@@ -201,7 +206,7 @@ class Editor(QMainWindow):  # TODO: kill this god shit
                 res.struct, self.resource_edit.resources,
             ), signature=Resource.signature),
         )
-        self.app.send_notify(self.tr('Note "%s" saved!') % self.note.title)
+        if notify: self.app.send_notify(self.tr('Note "%s" saved!') % self.note.title)

     @Slot()
     def save_and_close(self):
-- 
1.7.9.5

[helloravi]

It would be great if this patch is made a part of the basic code base. I hope the founder takes note of this :)