I've always had a lot of envy for Wordpress users because they have autosave. I just hate it when I'm typing something in a TYPO3 form and I click save and all of my typing is lost due to error or whatever. 

But now there's a cool autosave extension for TYPO3. And gues what it's called? 

It's called "Automatic Save" and you can download it from the link I just posted, or you can find it in the extension repository.

All you have to do is install it from the repsository (I think you can also use composer). 

You have to enable the extension before you first use it. I created a new content element on this page and when I began editing it I noticed that there was a button on the top right of the editing form that said "Autosave disabled". So I clicked the button and that enabled autosave. That's it, autosave was enabled with the autsave interval set at 300 seconds, which I think was a little too long, but that can be changed in the settings.

So I started typing and after 300 seconds, the Autosave extension saved my form for me automatically. That was cool. 

What wasn't cool though is that when it autosaves it reloads the whole frame that the RTE (rich text editor) is in. And that's disruptive. After it saves it scrolls the text area you're typing in back to the top and that means you have to scroll back down to continue typing. 

This extension is in beta so maybe the way it autosaves will change. Right now it's kind of annoying how it basically reloads the entire frame instead of just saving the text in the textarea the way that Wordpress does. I'll probably uninstall it and check back to see if there's any improvements on that later.