Where your edits are saved in Unmarked

Unmarked saves your changes to the original file about 2 seconds after you stop typing. There's no Save button. The one exception is a brand-new untitled document: save it once with ⌘S to give it a name and a place, and from then on it saves on its own like everything else.

When you open a file in Unmarked, you're editing that file, not a copy of it. Type a sentence, fix a heading, or tick a task checkbox, and the change goes into the file on disk. There's no menu trip and nothing to remember.

How it works

1. Open a Markdown file with Open (⌘O), or pick one from Recent on the home screen.
2. Edit it. Type in Write mode, or tick a task checkbox in Read mode (⌘E switches between them).
3. Keep working. Each time you pause, Unmarked writes the change to the file you opened.

Close the window with File ▸ Close before that pause and Unmarked saves your last typing first.

If you opened it from an iCloud Drive or Dropbox folder, the save lands there, and that service syncs it like anything else in the folder.

If another app changes the file while it's open, Unmarked shows the new version without throwing away anything you're in the middle of typing (when another app changes your file).

The one time you'll press ⌘S

A new document started with New (⌘N) has no name and no home yet, so there's nothing to save into. Give it one:

1. Press Save (⌘S).
2. Choose a name and a folder.
3. From then on it saves on its own.

What about undo?

Undo and redo (⌘Z / ⇧⌘Z) walk back your edits within the open document, and each step saves to the file the same way your typing does. Delete a paragraph, change your mind, hit undo, and it comes back. What undo won't do is reach a version from last week after you've closed the file. For that, lean on Time Machine or your sync service's version history.