You do not need to save the pages in Horse. Horse writes changes to the sidebar locally while you work, then restores the saved state of your Trails® after a normal quit, restart, or update. The Save button has been relieved of duty. It is spending more time with its family.
What gets saved automatically
The sidebar is working state, not a temporary tab session. When you open a page, rename a Trail, or move part of a project, Horse records the changed structure on your computer.
That means you can stop for the evening with three projects open, quit Horse, and return to the same visible paths tomorrow. There is no ritual where you bookmark everything, name a tab group, photograph the screen, and ask the universe to remember what “Untitled Document” was for.
Autosave is not a backup
Local saving protects the ordinary close-and-reopen workflow. It cannot make a hard drive immortal or promise that a damaged application profile will never lose data. No software gets to wear that cape.
If a Trail contains research, receipts, or the seventeen links keeping an important project alive, make a separate portable copy:
- Select the Trail or Trails you want to keep.
- Use Copy Trail as Markdown.
- Paste the result into a text editor.
- Save the
.mdfile somewhere separate from Horse.
The Markdown copy preserves the selected links and hierarchy. It does not contain every Horse setting, password, application file, or local data record. The offline export guide explains the boundary in full.