Originally posted by Brooke Meyer I wrote a long reply and it escaped out in the Ether somewhere
If you use Firefox, Chrome or Safari, I can recommend Lazarus Form Recovery.
It's saved me a lot of time. It remembers what you entering/entered in a web form, e.g. the message/Quick Reply box on this site. If you lose your composition, power, computer reboots etc, no problem:
Reopen your web browser
Right-click on the empty box
Pick from the list of recently entered text.
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It remembers text in messages you don't submit, as well. Say you start to compose a message and then scrap it. Later you change your mind and want to use part or all of what you first typed: no problem.
It seems to be auto-saving frequently, so a fast typist would probably only lose a sentence or two.
You can tell it not to save for certain sites e.g. banking forms, and you can password-protect the retrieval of encrypted stored text if you share the computer and you're worried about privacy.
Here's what I see when I right-click on this box as I'm typing this message (I do a lot of re-editing, so there's different versions of messages saved):