Have you ever had to quickly launch Windows Notepad to catch on-the-fly Notes?

- You are listening to an Internet audio clip and a book is mentioned, so you
need to type it in.

- You want to catch some information from a PDF file and the PDF is copy protected
so it won’t let you copy text

etc….

But sometimes you want to step away from this unsaved notepad file to walk the dog, and you don’t want the computer to reset itself, or freeze without saving this Notepad file full of information.

So just save it, but save it in the default folder, and just name it “DelToday.txt” if you know for sure that you won’t need this file anytime after today. This way you don’t start collecting all of these files on the hard drive, and it starts really dragging on your psyche when you have to re-read all of these $%#@! files on some other day when you are trying to clean out your My Documents folder.

Whenever I see a file named: “DeleteToday.txt” (or DelTod.txt), I know I can delete it.

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