Wow, now people are relying on software to save documents for them because their too thoughtless to do it on their own. I'm in the process of writing a dissertation and every night, I end up "getting in the zone" of writing. However, as stange as it may sound, I seem to have no problems remembering to save my work at intermittent intervals. There must be something wrong with me.

I type very fast, it took me a matter of minutes to type out a 5 page layout of the projects we had listed. I don't think to save every 1 minute or 30 seconds.

I do mostly save, and have it set to auto save every 60 seconds. The time my power went out just happened to be as I was typing and I didn't even think about saving it. MS word had just saved it for me.

However, I agree with you, bored28, you always need to save and back up your data whenever you can.

Just save the darn doc as a .txt file! And what is the chance that Mac OS X will crash in the 2 seconds (or less) it takes to save? Abiword also makes a backup copy.