Do you keep a diary (or the more manly version…a journal or chronicles)? Or do you wish to keep notes where the notes keep the date automatically? Well here is an awesome trick for you. All you need is notepad.
1) Open a blank notepad file.
2) Type .LOG in all caps at the top and hit enter.
3) Now save the file.
4) After closing the file, reopen it and notice that the date & time is now listed on the second line.
5) Also notice that the cursor is ready for you to start typing on the very next line.
6) Now every time you open it, type something on the next line and then save it, when you reopen it, it will have automatically saved the date and time on the last line.
It keeps a running record of date and time for each save. Now you have a cheap diary! Congrats!
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Nice find
First!
Pretty kewl, thanks for the info.
I highly doubt the world’s cheapest diary is a computer… Just saying.
HA! True, I didn’t really think of it that way Christine. It was more of a deal where I assumed they already had a computer but we all know what assuming does. :-/
Any thing similar for mac?
Nice trick.
Notepad FTW!!!!!!!!!
+1 pc
-1 mac
Awesome. I started using it right away! Thanks!
Also, pressing F5 in notepad prints the date & time
I started using this right away also.
now only if i had something to say…
Lol. How true!!
just hit F5 while in notepad and it will insert a timestamp… Might be a little easier than this
You know, If you hit F5 in notepad, The Time(Hours, Minutes, Seconds and AM/PM appear with the Date (Month/Day/Year) So that can be more exact. (At least in Windows 7)
YOU KNOW IF YOU JUST HIT F5 IT WILL INSERT A TIMESTAMP OMGWTFBBQ NOBODY BEFORE ME HAS SUGGESTED THIS YET
Cheapest ? Since when is windows free ?
windows 7 CAN be free. whether its legal or not is an entirely different story.. Notepad FTW
@Jake, on a Mac, just open up Mail and do a Ctl-Cmd-N to create a new time-stamped note.
5:28 AM 3/23/2011
This is probably the most simple and coolest thing i have have ever seen lol
@Helge – You were planning to buy Windows just to use Notepad as a diary? 0.o
OMG this is so stupid, but doesnt work on mac…..
It’s funny to me that people are so amazed with some of these things. (no offence) Schools teach these things on a daily basis, I took classes on all things computer related.. but I suppose thats could also be because 50% of the teachers were behind our generation when it came to computers as it was. – My computer teacher may have knew her stuff, but she always managed to be ‘old’ in certain ways, and her daughter graduated with me. -_-
umm tothose people way up there with the computer comment if your seeing this page you kinda have to have a computer
Good point sam
If you Herp F5 you will derp the time on the herp.
Good One… I always needed something like this…
CHEERS!!!
Doesn’t work on Windows 7 version
i don’t get it. how is this neat?
Spiffy, kinda an easter egg.
Cool — wondering if there are more hidden features in notepad beyond the .LOG
Actually, it DOES work on windose 7:)
Great!!! Hope to c some more great tips from you guys
Didn’t work for me…. F5 tip thanks
Nice trick! Thanks for sharing
Thanks for the share man!.
interesting and useful
This is sweet thanks.
Very cool trick.thanks
So funny. I’ll surprise my colleges tomorrow
It is nice tip but if it was possible to add some other logs then it could be more useful.
WOW..Nice trick. I always look forward for such tricks in Windows..))