6. Common Tasks ↑

6.10 Insert a Date

Beneath the Edit menu the user will find an action titled Paste a Date….

When this action is invoked, the user will see a new window, titled Paste Date.

Two columns of radio buttons are presented.

The first column indicates the date content that is desired, allowing the user to select from the following options:

• Today
• Tomorrow
• Next Week (one week from today)
• Next Month (one month from today)
• Next Year (one year from today)

The second column indicates the date format that is desired, allowing the user to select from one of a number of predetermined options, or to specify a custom date formatting string.

See the Unicode Standard for supported Date Format Patterns.

As the user makes different selections with the radio buttons, the resulting text string will be shown at the bottom of the window, in the center.

Pressing Cancel will close the window without any further action.

Pressing OK will cause the formatted date string to be copied to the clipboard, and then pasted into whatever text field is currently being edited; this could be a Note’s Title, or somewhere in its Body, or an actual Date field, or any other field that allows text entry.

Notenik will recall the user’s last selections each time that this action is invoked.

Note that, at its simplest, the user need only use the keyboard shortcut CTRL-D followed by the Return key in order to insert a formatted date into any text field within a Note.