Disclaimer: I saw this on DIGG the other day, but can't find it via search this morning to attribute.
I am a Windows Notepad user, I use it throughout the day to keep running notes from meetings that I later consolidate into meeting notes and actions. It works well. I should probably use OneNote or something but I like the simplicity of a basic text editor like notepad.
So here's one cool little trick for notepad that allows you to to automatically keep a simple date/time stamp in notepad as you open/add to a log.
Start Notepad.
On the top line of the file type: .LOG (must be capitalized) , save the file with any name
Re-open it
A date/time stamp is added to the file below the word .LOG -- add some text below that.
Save and reopen again a new date/time stamp is listed below the text.
It will look like this:
.LOG
9:46 AM 7/9/2006
HELLO
9:46 AM 7/9/2006
HELLO Again
It is teresting that this is hidden in notepad, I wonder what else is in their? Tim Sneath told me the other day that if I use Notepad so much that I should give Notepad2 a whirl. Omar also has instructions on replacing Notepad with Notepad2. I do need to give that a whirl.
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