Build a Daily Notes Writer

Level: Beginner

Your task for today is to create a script that takes a list of sentences from the user, writes them to a text file, and automatically names the file with the current date.

Project Task

Create a daily notes writer that:

• Prompts the user to enter multiple sentences or notes

• Collects all sentences until the user types ‘done’

• Uses the datetime library to get the current date

• Creates a filename using today’s date (e.g., notes_2024-01-15.txt)

• Writes all collected sentences to the text file

• Saves each sentence on a new line

• Displays a confirmation message with the filename

This project gives you hands-on practice with file writing, date formatting, loops, and user input handling — essential skills for creating note-taking and logging applications.

Expected Output

The program will ask the user to enter some notes. If the user types in “done” the program stops asking for notes and writes the notes in a file:

And here is the generated text file:

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Skeleton and Solution

Below you will find both a downloadable skeleton.py file to help you code the project with comment guides and the downloadable solution.py file containing the correct solution.

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