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What is the best strategy for applications that autosave an email before it is sent or save a blog post before it’s finished or officially saved? Would it be best to use a separate table in the database for temporary drafts or to have a status column that marks a post as draft or published? I’m not looking for code, just methods, but any other related advice would be welcome as well, like how often to save, etc.
Considering that separate tables for drafts and published articles would be essentially duplicates of each other, I would lean towards just one table with a status column to differentiate between the two.