There are many times when you would like to track the history of a record. For instance you have a contact list of your clients on your SharePoint site and you would love to know who has talked to the client in the past and a brief overview of their conversations so you can talk intelligently to them. Here's how to set up a Time Stamp on the notes field that will automatically record the time the record was edited and who edited it.

Step 1: Go to the list and click Settings/List Settings

Step 2: Select Versioning Settings

Step 3: Set the Item Version History to "Yes"

Step 4: Go back to the list Settings and click on the "Notes" column

Step 5: At the bottom of the Notes column stettings select "Yes" for Append Changes to Existing Text

Step 6: You are all done! Now go edit a record in your list and add a comment to the Notes field. Here is an example of what the finished product will look like: