Who knew the humble Windows Notepad was capable of anything other than, well, taking text only notes.
If you’re searching for a simple application to write a diary or take daily notes, look no further than Notepad. So, what’s new you ask ?
Well, with this tip you can make notepad automatically add the current day and time to a document as soon as you open it and save you the headache of doing so yourself.
To accomplish this:
- Open Notepad (START->Run->notepad.exe)
- Type “.LOG” on the first line of the new document.
- Save the file and close Notepad.
Now when you open the same file again, you’ll see that Notepad would have added the current Date and time to the document automatically.
Write your entry for the day and close the file. Everytime you open the file, Notepad will add the current timestamp on a new line saving you the effort to do the same.
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13 Comments
I use this for my daily To Do.
Are there any more such keywords you can use to make notepad do other stuff?
Abhilash: I don’t know of any other keywords for notepad. Will try and search for more :-)
Or press F5
You can also just press F5
F5 will also post the date
[quote]Are there any more such keywords you can use to make notepad do other stuff?[/quote]
Try typing “Start” without the quotes on the first line of the documents and saving the file as Start.log
This will give you a C:\ prompt whenever you double click on it. I find this very useful whenever the C:\ prompt has been disabled and you need one quick.
Thanks!
Weird but lovely thought of using Notepad :)
aww, ain’t windows users cute
Whoa! Great hack you found out man! Kudos!
Cool.
Curious, how did you figure this out? Just by chance, or were you looking?
Wow nice!
Even textpad is doing this…
heh… read about this back in the 90s in a tips & tricks section of some pc magazine….. PC World or PC Magazine :P. Nice to know its still found useful. Many notepad-clones also duplicate this behavior (metapad for certain)
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