Possibility to trigger the autosave of notebooks only if they have been modified?

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Is it possible to trigger the autosave of notebooks only if they have been modified (after the content of at least one cell has been modified or a cell has been executed)?
I’m not completely happy with the way “Autosave documents” currently works, on or off.

When I work on a notebook I want it to be saved automatically (as the autosave option allows).
But at the same time, I have other notebooks just open for reference that I don’t edit. I don’t want them to be automatically re-registered so as not to lose their registration date.

I’d like a solution that doesn’t require me to permanently activate/deactivate autosave or to have to inject code into my notebooks.
Hence my initial question.

Thanks for your suggestions.

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Hi @athelopuce , welcome to the community! This looks like a good candidate for an enhancement request. You can open one in the JupyterLab GitHub repo. I found a few open issues concerning autosave, but none about this specific request.

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Hi @jweill-aws . Thanks for your answer. As you suggested I have open an enhancement issue : Change the shared "auto save documents " option by an "autosave status" specific to each noteboook · Issue #15081 · jupyterlab/jupyterlab · GitHub !

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