Arrow to disk.
If the floppy disk was no longer the save symbol for software, and I had to chose one, I’d chose the floppy disk symbol.
But you worded your question wisely to avoid that loophole, so I’m not sure what to use instead for an otherwise unique and ubiquitous symbol, already known as “the save file icon” for two generations that have not seen it.
While we’re at it, let’s also replace the phone icons with a rectangle, as to not confuse anyone.
Probably an arrow pointing to a hard drive.
A cassette tape.
An SSD or HDD disk lol.
Something like the symbol Mac uses/used for external storage
A CD image. Got to move with the times.
Isnt it the glorious zip disks turn first?
5.25"floppy disk
The one true floppy
A quill
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Goatse
Go older: a punch card being inserted into a tray
An arrow pointing into a folder, similar to this. Sidesteps the tech issue altogether.
Is there an icon that expresses the default cloud save location as well as the circuitous GUI you need to navigate yo select your desired location on local storage?
I mean, you’re just replacing one archaic symbol with another.
Normal people call computer directories ‘folders’.
I still use folders to organize paper documents. Taxes and medical stuff mostly.
We should do away with directories. Just one big block of files.
Yes look everything up by
keyworddescribing its contents to AI agent.I don’t want you to take this as hyperbole: go away and never come back, Google
Screw multiple files, just use one big one. Just append anything you want to add and you’ll have everything in 1 spot
Makes sense. Then you can add some kind of index to the file so you can jump to the parts you want. Just track a list of chunks, so they don’t have to be contiguous.
Yeah, and we could give that huge file some kind of internal and logical structure to find those chunks, maybe something hierarchical with human readable names!
Yeah! Now we’re cooking! I bet we could really improve resiliency and seek times with different data structures, too. B trees?
Or maybe we could keep the flat structure and have some kind of syntax for querying the data… some kind of structured language.
You’ve basically invented OneNote
Crap, I was hoping to invent file systems.
Easy to find saves time
You can’t just jump to the future, so use this one for the next decade:
Hard drives pre-dated floppy discs by 15 years.
… but platter drives are old hat, SSDs are the new hotness?
That’s the joke.
But hard drives came first.
Well it’s not a very good one.
Can’t skip a generation, gotta go from the floppy disk icon to the HDD icon for a while first.
I bow to thy argumentation.
Nobody else immediately thought of this?
Incremental save needs to be Buddha
This gives Calibre FOSS vibes.
This makes me think “new file”
Timeless. Ubiquitous. Mandatory for all of K-12 and often beyond. Perfect.
A scroll and quill is a pretty good idea, but it’d be better as something more squarish than irregular, I think.
