And in 5 minutes.
And 5 minutes after that.
Repeat until you stop working today.
Hit Ctrl-S every start of the day after 5 minutes of work.
And 5 minutes after that.
Repeat until you stop working that day.
There you go. Saved you a lot of hours of work.
That doesn't help my mom when she's writing a long letter and (rightly) expects her computer's RAM to hold the information and warn her before it does anything destructive. That doesn't help the middle-schooler who is suffering through their first 5-page essay.
Save when convenient.
Repeat as necessary.
I prefer to use software that behaves the way I want it to, rather than modifying my own behavior to work around its shortcomings.