As always I found this when looking for something else, figured i’d share – i haven’t found a personal use for this yet . . . but i am always amazed to find there are clever things built into windows instead of the hundreds of factory installed bugs.
Using MS Notepad for joural entries.
- Open a blank Notepad file
- Write .LOG (in uppercase) in the first line of the file, followed by Enter. Save the file and close it.
- Double-click the file to open it and notice that Notepad appends the current date and time to the end of the file and places the cursor on the line after.
- Type your notes and then save and close the file.
- Each time you open the file, Notepad repeats the process, appending the time and date to the end of the file and placing the cursor below it.
- F5 will also insert the date and time.
.LOG
11:24 PM 7/7/2006
now is the time for all good men
11:24 PM 7/7/2006
quick brown fox jumped over the lazy white man
11:39 PM 7/7/2006
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