Question: I started maintaining work notes in a text document, pre Evernote/OneNote days, say in a file named worknotes.txt. I add code, tips, tricks, queries, urls etc to this file with some comments.

I have been using TextPad where I created a shortcut to always open this file by pressing Ctrl+1. But I can no longer use TextPad and am forced to use Notepad++ (Notepad++ v 7.8.2).

How do I create a shortcut in Notepad++? I tried creating a macro but the macro doesn't work. I created it by menu option Macro - Start Recording - File - Open - type the file name etc and then Stop Recording. To test my macro, I selected menu option Macro - Playback but it didn't work.

To verify that I am recording the macro, I created other simple macros like find/replace certain string OR insert a single quote to the beginning & end of the lines in a file and all these macros run properly.

Any thoughts/tips/pointers?

Thanks.

Answer: 
Instead of a Macro you may want to use `Run` from the menu and browse for the file and add a shortcut for this as shown in the screenshot below.

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/T2yQP.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/T2yQP.png)
Another way to go is to open once the file in Notepad++ and **never** close it, just save the changes. Then, when you close Notepad++ and reopen it sometimes later, the file is allways present in Notepad++.

For this to work you have to enable `Remember current session for next launch`:

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> Settings > Preferences > Backup > `Remember current session for next launch`
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