<p>Does anyone know of any notepad++ plugin that saves a version of whatever I'm working on periodically? Ideally, it would save many versions with the automatic version number and the date in the title, and perhaps store them in a zipped archive to save space.</p>

<p>Does something like this exist already, or shold I attempt to write such a plugin myself?</p>

<p>Thanks,<br>
Cameron</p>

<p>P.S. It should be freeware or (preferably) open-source.</p>

You might be better off looking into something closer to "real" version control -
Mercurial
, perhaps. It doesn't require a server, and it's really easy to set up.
To automate it, you could turn on autosave in Notepad++, and set up a windows scheduled task to do an
```
hg commit
```
every few minutes.