Windows Notepad as a Personal Diary
Most of us use Notepad in Windows very frequently to quickly store some data. In fact, there is always a text file on my Desktop and I use it often to quickly store some data. This will generally contain the activities that I’m supposed to do for the day.
I’m sure many of use Notepad for some or the other thing. So what’s a big deal in it? Is this your question?
Let me ask you, do you know that a Notepad can be used as a Personal Diary? No, please read on!
Follow these quick steps
- Firstly open a blank Notepad file.
- Now write .LOG (case sensitive) as the first line in the file, and then hit enter. You may save it with any name and then close it.
- Open the notepad file now and you will find that the current date and time has been appended at the end and the cursor is placed in the next line.
- Type your notes and then save and close the file.
- Each time you open the file, Notepad repeats the process and it appends the date and time to the end of the file.
This way you can easily maintain and track all you entries along with their Time Stamps. This can work very much like a Personal Diary.
Notepad is one of the wonderful utility in Windows. No other program like a Word, Excel or a utility tool like Ultra Edit can replace it. What do you say?
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Great tip arun, I didn’t know about this. I use notepad a lot. let me start using this
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Hey, that is a nifty little trick. Great for me, as I am always using it to take telephone messages and stuff like that. That will save me a lot of time, and help me be more efficient in my mess!
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@Lyndi, Good to know that you liked it Lyndi. But, this tip is not of much use when we use Notepad for Programming! 
@Nihar, I already started using this! Let me know if you find some other uses for it!
@Andrew, Noting down the Telephone No’s in Notepad is widely used across. Am sure this tip would certainly help there!
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. I’m Glad that you liked it.
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I have been using Notepad for years as I do all my PHP, XHTML and CSS coding in it. This is the first time I have heard this useful tip. Thanks a lot. I am sure to find a use for this.
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