TE, like all (most?) of Apples apps manage documents for you. They auto save, auto version, etc. I love the paradigm. I love how painless it works for me. I love not having to decide anything when the app closes (say during a restart), or even during a crash. Just hit close, everything goes away, and comes back when you open again.
My TextEdit opens with 47 documents, cleverly named "Untitled" to "Untitled 47". Some of those are most certainly years old. TE is my computer scratch paper, and things just, well, linger.
These files "do not exist" on my computer, they're in Apples document enclave. That's OK. I know where they are.
The app that you’re supposed to use for persistent, unnamed, always open documents is obviously Stickies. Try it out by using cmd+shift+Y in any application to add selected text to a new sticky.
(I’m kidding, I’ve never intentionally used this macOS feature.)
I actually used this a lot back in snow leopard, but I think it’s gone now. It was actually really nice to have little persistent post-it notes floating around.
Does it still exist? I haven’t seen it or heard of it in years.
TE, like all (most?) of Apples apps manage documents for you. They auto save, auto version, etc. I love the paradigm. I love how painless it works for me. I love not having to decide anything when the app closes (say during a restart), or even during a crash. Just hit close, everything goes away, and comes back when you open again.
My TextEdit opens with 47 documents, cleverly named "Untitled" to "Untitled 47". Some of those are most certainly years old. TE is my computer scratch paper, and things just, well, linger.
These files "do not exist" on my computer, they're in Apples document enclave. That's OK. I know where they are.