This is one of my favorite Mac tips. I’m a frantic file saver. It comes from my old advertising days and using OS 9. In OS 9 you didn’t have to remember to restart your machine once a week as it would crash several times a day. Sick of losing hours worth of work I started command + s’ing like a manic person. With this tip I have settled down and can know at a glance if it has been saved or not. Interested?

How you ask? The little icon at the top of the file. If it has been saved the icon is full color, if it has had changes it will be washed out. Nice, huh?

Reader Sean Root has another tip: Also, you can look at the red close bubble in the top left of the document window. An unsaved document will have a black dot, a saved one won’t!

Thanks Sean!