On the frustration of using the obsolete Vocal word editor

To preserve my mental health sanity as much as possible I have decided that I won't let this frustration stay inside my chest, growing into something even worse and ultimately causing me stress. More stress which I don't need.

You see, not always I feel like writing on a document first to then copy my writing onto the Vocal word editor before finally submitting the piece to the right community (speaking of communities, they also need some updating and perhaps adding one for creative non-fiction, for starters). Sometimes --and I am pretty sure I am not the only one-- I simply want to write something straight away here, on this rather obsolete and basic editor, and publish the piece immediately, without second thoughts or edits or anything. Just plain, raw writing. Not everything needs to be edited, and developed into three or more drafts. Not in my book. That's how many stories never get published. Too much perfectionism is not a good thing.

"Sure, Susan, we can do that," you may say. "We can write directly here on this word editor and publish right away. Are you sure? You see, there is the little "save changes" green button on the top right that is utterly annoying. Why annoying? Annoying because this obsolete editor does not save your writing automatically! This, an old piece of software in the era of automation and Agentic AI systems. This word editor will not save your writing unless you remember to manually save it by clicking on the 'save changes' little green annoying button. You do have to remember to click on the "save changes" button every couple of minutes unless you want to lose your masterpiece whilst you blink twice in disbelief of what it just happened.

Seriously? Like, seeeeriously? If you don't click on the damn button and your computer decides it's time to power off, reload by itself, go into sleep mode, or whatever other things devices do at the least convenient moment and your whole work can be gone. Forever gone. Just like that. You will never recover the precious ideas, the well chosen words that made you so proud, the magnificent piece of writing that you had just created and trusted the Vocal word editor would save it for you. Because that would be how it should be.

Dear Vocal,

Hereby, I beg you to please, pretty pretty please, update, upgrade, do some magic, do something to bring this annoying obsolete word editor to the 21st century. Did you notice we are already past the first quarter of the century? Amazing. Every word editor in this galaxy and beyond is capable of auto-saving. Not this one, though. If my life would depend on what I write here forgetting your word editor will not autosave, well, I would be dead by now. Perhaps the squid-like creatures from the neighbouring galaxy whom seem to be interested in my marvellous writing skills would finally buy my stories. IF and only IF I could get my stories to autosave rather than losing everything into the void. It's as if the Vocal word editor is connected to the black hole of writing where everything disappears and no one knows where the words go. So, please, pretty please, do something to add a so much needed real-time autosave function. This could literally save lives.

Sincerely,

- Susan

Ps/ I was half way into writing a story, the device I was using decided to do something and all what I had written disappeared, to never come back. It was all gone to the void. My frustration produced this, which at least will amuse someone.