I use AutoHotkey's text replacement to drop different date formats. Typing "]ts" in an input replaces it with 03/21/2025 10:10:48

  ::]ts::{
    Send(FormatTime(,"MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss"))
    Return
  }
  

Beware the syntax differences between Autohotkey 1 and 2 when searching documentation

yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss

Please take this as your official notice that you use dates completely wrong and the world thinks you are a terrible person. If you would like to be a good person, please correct your horrific use of dates immediately

Medium/Small/Big Big:Medium:Small - No! Bad American!

Big-Medium-Small Big:Medium:Small—Yes! You're now ISO 8601 compliant!

TL;DR:

  Send(FormatTime(,"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"))

ISO 8601 is a great standard when you need interoperability (e.g. between machines/servers, or between humans in different locales) or the ability to sort by timestamp.

For personal note taking, or notes to be shared locally, it makes sense to use your local locale's format.

That's why I use AHK for my favorite timestamps like 20250321102123, I prefer year first as well but when in Rome.

There is no F5 key on iphones :)

I couldn't find any simple apple-notes-like app, that is available on all platforms, and allows logging in this style.

my private version of this app has cross-device sync, it's just not fully baked yet since I need to implement some form of signup (google/apple), and there's also the privacy issue people are concerned about which I'm not sure how to address.

Point!

If you could make a way to share a note attached to a specific name, it would work very nicely for one usage which needs timestamping I've been working on (which is why I had the F5 thing at the ready), tracking how long it takes to cut a given file on a CNC, then sharing that result.

you mean sharing a note externally with someone over the internet?

I could probably do something like that, based on URL-encoding, but it will have a limit of approx ~ 2000 characters

Yes.

Having the note encoded in the URL would be a great way to share that.

added a share option in the note editor, let me know what you think

Thanks!

I'll start using it for sharing times of Carbide Motion files.

EDIT: One last feature request --- add an option/UI where a beginning time allotment could be entered (say 60 minutes for a 1 hr. meeting) and the time would be counted down for each entry? and then then time over shown once the allotment was used up? This would seem to match the typical usage of managing notes for a meeting.

For bonus points, add in a way to add hourly rates so that the on-going cost of the meeting will show up? (though maybe that's too cluttered).

The additional metadata like tags, and the overall streamlining of the workflow. Yes, most things can be taped together with a little effort, but if this is something that vibes very well with you, then this is a substantial incremental improvement.