Is there a better character than the asterisk to indicate a modified document?
In Windows applications it seems to be a common way to indicate modified, unsaved documents with an asterisk *
character.
E.g. this is how Visual Studio .NET 2012 indicates a modified document:
When the document is saved to disk, the asterisk character disappears again. I'm currently using the same method in my own applications, too.
Since I loved how Microsoft replaced the *
in password fields by the much clearer •
character, I am thinking about something similar for indicating my unsaved documents, too.
Unfortunately, I think the •
for indicating "feels" not quite right.
So my questions are:
- Would you recommend of using something other than the
*
character to indicate modified documents? - If yes, how would you do it (i.e. which character or which other way)?
Update:
As commented by kedar, I've tried the text editor Sublime Text 2 to see how they do it: