Ask HN: The best app to keep a work diary

Re:Ask HN: The best app to keep a work diary by chrisbennet on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @07:14AM (#10418481)

I use plain old Notepad on Windows. "F5" inserts the date and time which I then edit a bit. I wrote a program to total the hours and such.

I started keeping a log years ago because sometimes it seems like I can't remember what I had for lunch. :-) It a lifesaver when your boss wants to know what you did last week.

Keeping a daily log comes in handy. A former colleague needed to know the details of a project I worked on a few years ago. I had him search my old logs and the answer was there (weird complier switch for using QT).

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Re:Ask HN: The best app to keep a work diary by thehoff on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @08:37AM (#10418752)

Same idea but I use Sublime Text. You can add the same feature to ST by creating a new plugin.

Stack Overflow answer (not mine) for how to do this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11879481/can-i-add-date-t...

* Note it's not the accepted answer but the one with the most upvotes on the proper way.

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Re:Ask HN: The best app to keep a work diary by whatok on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @07:17AM (#10418493)

I've been using Notepad for quite a while and had no idea you could use F5 to insert a timestamp. Thank you for this.

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Re:Ask HN: The best app to keep a work diary by chrisbennet on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @08:26AM (#10418720)

Don't feel bad, I discovered it by accident. I think a cat walked on the keyboard one day.

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Re:Ask HN: The best app to keep a work diary by tasdev on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @11:39PM (#10423563)

You can also use .LOG at the start of the file and every time you open it, Notepad will insert the current date/time.

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