Useful Notepad Tricks

Know System time using notepad :

Many of us use notepad to write programs or write some to-do lists. Some people hide their taskbars in order to reduce the distraction.We might want to know the current time as we have been coding from a long time.Also suppose we dont want to move our hands from the keyboard or we operate the computer using shortcuts or keyboard only.

You need not worry about moving your mouse upto taskbar and let it pop up. You can simply press FunctionKey (F5) while you are in notepad to know the system time.

Hide text in notepad :

Sometimes we may want to send some confidential data to our friends.Previously we have seen a post how to send it using privnote.

But sometimes we want to send some important matter and we prefer sending it through notepad.But others can easily see it by just opening it.

Here is a method by which you can hide the contents of notepad.

• Open command prompt (Win + R -> cmd)
• Go to your select directory
• type notepad filename.txt: hidden
• Save the file

There should be no space between filename.txt and :

Now open the file and you can see that the content is hidden and also the properties show the file size as 0 Bytes

To open the file,follow the same steps by going to command prompt.

ThankYou :)