is there any way to insert the current date within task notes using keyboard shortcuts??

[Julen Juaristi]

when reviewing a task within a team, a date stamp  within the notes gives me  a very important information. Many TO-DOs  stamp the date and time automatically when ever there is a comment done.

[grizz]

You can use autohotkey

ex if you type ]d it expands to dd.MM.yyyy r. HH:mm

::]d::

FormatTime, CurrentDateTime,, dd.MM.yyyy r. HH:mm

SendInput %CurrentDateTime%

return 

[Stéph]

Hello Julen,

I've got good news for you: Insert Date, Insert Time or Insert Date/Time are all hotkeys (which you can configure via the Tools menu -> Options -> Hotkeys). I have Ctrl-D set of date and I use it all the time for date-stamping anything I add to my notes.

Regards,

Stéphane

[Julen Juaristi]

thank you very much!!! this will help me a lot.

[lewy]

Just press F4.

[Mike McCallister]

Actually, F4 gives you the date and time. Ctrl+Shift+T gives you just the date. I use these all the time!

Cheers,
Mike McCallister

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Just press F4.

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[Stéph]

Those two shortcuts are customisable to whatever key combination you want, under "Tools - Options - Hotkeys". I think the default for date is Ctrl+Shift+D and time is Ctrl+Shift+T, while date and time is F4.

On Monday, 6 May 2019 14:22:28 UTC+1, Mike McCallister wrote:

Actually, F4 gives you the date and time. Ctrl+Shift+T gives you just the date. I use these all the time!

Cheers,
Mike McCallister

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Just press F4.

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[Huw Evans]

This is great - any way to set the format for the date that is inserted with this shortcut?

[André Bonhôte]

I received the forum summary a few minutes ago, your question was mentioned there. As I'm not using F4 or CTRL-SHIFT-T, my way of doing it came to my mind: Autohotkey. I have three "shortcuts":

.tod

which will be replaced by the current date, like 20190712

.now

which adds the time, 20190712_120835 

and finally

.yes

which is, of course, yesterday. 20190711.

; - Insert Date & time to be used to rename a file

:*:.now::

FormatTime, xx,, yyyyMMdd_HHmmss

SendInput, %xx%

Return

; - Insert year + week

:*:.week::

FormatTime, xx,, YWeek

SendInput, %xx%

Return

; - Insert Date

::.tod::

FormatTime, xx,, yyyyMMdd

SendInput, %xx%

Return

::.yes::

time := A_Now

time += -1, Days

FormatTime, xx, %time%, yyyyMMdd

SendInput, %xx%

Return

Ok, there's a fourth one which adds year + week, like 201928.

You can of course format the time as you wish, well described on the AHK website.

Sidenote: The reason I have these replacements is mainly due to my file naming convention. I normally place the current date in front of each file I create.

Hope that helps :-)

Cheers

André

[Huw Evans]

Thanks! Great info

[Andrei Bacean]

hi

here is an autohotkey script which iserts date after pressing the keybord shortcut Ctrl+F9.

^F9::
    FormatTime, CurrentDateTime,, yyyy.MM.dd
    SendInput %CurrentDateTime%
return

You can substitute the Ctrl+F9 (^F9) with you own shortcut.

Here is a brief introduction to shortcut naming used by autohotkey.

Good luck!

Br

Andrew

ps The code has been updated, first version contained a typo.

понедельник, 15 июля 2019 г., 10:56:42 UTC+3 пользователь Huw Evans написал:

Thanks!  Great info

[Andrei Bacean]

ups, forgot to delete an unnecessary line from the code. Here is the correct one:

^F9::
    FormatTime, CurrentDateTime,, yyyy.MM.dd
    SendInput %CurrentDateTime%
return

вторник, 16 июля 2019 г., 8:34:40 UTC+3 пользователь Andrei Bacean написал:

[André Bonhôte]

Autohotkey is about the first thing I install on a new computer 😉

Tue Jul 16 07:38:02 GMT+02:00 2019 Andrei Bacean <bacean...@gmail.com>:

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[Huw Evans]

Thanks again Andrei - unfortunately my work computer will not allow me to install, but I did find a similar one called Phrase Express and have just set  that up.

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[Andrei Bacean]

Hi
Maybe the portable version will help
https://portableapps.com/node/39299

First, install it on a different computer, then move it to the work pc.

Good luck
Andrew