July 15, 2006

Auto date and timestamped entries in Notepad with handy .LOG trick Books and Writing, blogs and podcasting, How To — by TDavid @ 5:02 am PST

This tip would be handy for live blogging using Windows Notepad.

Say you are at some event and are adding updates and don’t want to manually type the date/time, just do the following, via LUX.ET.UMBRA:

Open a file with Notepad, and type on the first line:

.LOG

Then you save the file and exit.

Now whenever you reopen the notepad file, you’ll have an automatic timestamp. Darkmoon found this at Microsoft. Man, there are some jewels hidden in the bowels. Great tip, thanks Darkmoon!

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yw. ^_^

Comment by darkmoon — July 15, 2006 @ 9:17 am PST

Add auto date and timestamp entries to Notepad

[via Things that… make you go hmm] Open a file with Notepad, and type on the first line: .LOG

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Fantastic tip I didn’t know this before!

Comment by Simon — September 26, 2009 @ 7:09 am PST

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