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date stamp in NOTES

I'm on iMac Catalina - I want a Shortcut to place date and time in Apple Notes (and other text apps). One would think this is a very basic standard thing like Copy and Paste. In some free OS, this is basic stuff. Where is it in MacOS???


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iMac 27", macOS 10.15

Posted on Jan 15, 2020 2:57 PM

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Posted on Jan 15, 2020 4:36 PM

Use the following AppleScript to paste the current, formatted date time onto the clipboard. In notes, you simply paste, to get the following:


15/01/2020 - 19:30


Launch the AppleScript Editor (Dock : Launchpad : Other : Script Editor), and copy paste the following two lines of code into it. Click the hammer button, and then click Run. You could save as format: application and stick it on your Dock.


use scripting additions
do shell script "date -j +\"%d/%m/%Y - %R\" | pbcopy"





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Jan 15, 2020 4:36 PM in response to mxreader

Use the following AppleScript to paste the current, formatted date time onto the clipboard. In notes, you simply paste, to get the following:


15/01/2020 - 19:30


Launch the AppleScript Editor (Dock : Launchpad : Other : Script Editor), and copy paste the following two lines of code into it. Click the hammer button, and then click Run. You could save as format: application and stick it on your Dock.


use scripting additions
do shell script "date -j +\"%d/%m/%Y - %R\" | pbcopy"





date stamp in NOTES

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