Here is a simple trick to turn your simple notepad application into a digital everyday diary if you are an Internet savvy.
Notepad is used for various purposes and is a basic application used in creating a html designed file. But many users don’t know that it can also be used a digital diary for maintaining time schedules or other activities.
Here are the simple steps to use the Windows Notepad as a simple digital diary.
- Just open the Notepad and type .LOG and press enter.
- Now save the Notepad file with ay name of your choice.
- After saving it, Close the Notepad and open it again.
Surprisingly you can see the current date and time being inserted automatically
after the .LOG line.
Now write your daily/hourly activities easily. To bring the current
date and time just press F5!
This is a guest post by Sidharth from Blogote. For more tips and tricks please visit his blog.
Sizlopedia is the creation of Saad Hamid, a tech enthusiast from Pakistan who started this blog in 2007.
Sidharth, thats a nice trick, better than using an extra software.
Thanks venkat
I’ve been using it for quite a long time.
Nifty feature
And we use it on our school computer too.
Whenever we get in the labs, we’ll write a note on that day and we’ve implemented this LOG technique to it.
Hi
Very Very Nice Tip.:) tnx you have great site.
Good Luck
IgImAx
Good…!
It would be very helpfull for saving .txt files with date and time automatically from the web
Re: Using NotePad as a log file with time and date.
This really is a cool trick, as far as it goes. I have been using a business work-log in Notepad for several years and I had been using the F5 key to add the time & date. Here is a way to have it happen automatically each time I open the file. Well almost. . .
The problem is that it doesn’t work past a certain file size. My current work-log file is only 107 KB in size but when I added the .LOG line and reopened it I get a message that there is not enough memory. I did some experimenting and found that with a new file I can add up to about 30 KB total before the message appears.
Any comments?
Frank Reid