diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 62d911fb..ac6bd974 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ CHANGELOG for FlatCAM beta
 - App - trying to speed up the new project creation
 - Tcl Shell - Browser Edit - added Undo/Redo, Cut and Delete selection
 - replace all the exec_() calls with exec() (except one situation in Tcl where I'm not sure of the effect)
+- in verbose log made the messages in Tcl Shell to be displayed in gray color and to include the date
 
 18.12.2020
 
diff --git a/appCommon/Common.py b/appCommon/Common.py
index ad6dd50b..c6eae3bc 100644
--- a/appCommon/Common.py
+++ b/appCommon/Common.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ from appTool import AppTool
 
 from copy import deepcopy
 import collections
+from datetime import datetime
 
 import numpy as np
 # from voronoi import Voronoi
@@ -913,20 +914,40 @@ class AppLogging:
         self._log.addHandler(handler)
 
     def info(self, msg):
+        # current date now
+        date = str(datetime.today()).rpartition('.')[0]
+        date = ''.join(c for c in date if c not in ':-')
+        date = date.replace(' ', '_')
+
         self._log.info(msg=msg)
-        self.app.inform_shell.emit('*** LOG ***\t%s' % msg)
+        self.app.inform_shell.emit('[log]INFO %s ***\t%s' % (date, msg))
 
     def debug(self, msg):
+        # current date now
+        date = str(datetime.today()).rpartition('.')[0]
+        date = ''.join(c for c in date if c not in ':-')
+        date = date.replace(' ', '_')
+
         self._log.debug(msg=msg)
-        self.app.inform_shell.emit('*** LOG ***\t%s' % msg)
+        self.app.inform_shell.emit('[log]DEBUG %s ***\t%s' % (date, msg))
 
     def warning(self, msg):
+        # current date now
+        date = str(datetime.today()).rpartition('.')[0]
+        date = ''.join(c for c in date if c not in ':-')
+        date = date.replace(' ', '_')
+
         self._log.warning(msg=msg)
-        self.app.inform_shell.emit('*** LOG ***\t%s' % msg)
+        self.app.inform_shell.emit('[log]WARNING %s ***\t%s' % (date, msg))
 
     def error(self, msg):
+        # current date now
+        date = str(datetime.today()).rpartition('.')[0]
+        date = ''.join(c for c in date if c not in ':-')
+        date = date.replace(' ', '_')
+
         self._log.error(msg=msg)
-        self.app.inform_shell.emit('*** LOG ***\t%s' % msg)
+        self.app.inform_shell.emit('[log]ERROR %s ***\t%s' % (date, msg))
 
 
 def farthest_point(origin, points_list):
diff --git a/appTools/ToolShell.py b/appTools/ToolShell.py
index a6ed0804..555605f0 100644
--- a/appTools/ToolShell.py
+++ b/appTools/ToolShell.py
@@ -149,8 +149,12 @@ class TermWidget(QWidget):
         elif style.lower() == 'raw':
             text = text
         else:
-            # without span <br/> is ignored!!!
-            text = '<span>%s</span>' % text
+            if text.startswith('[log]'):
+                text = text.replace('[log]', '', 1)
+                text = '<span style="color: gray;">%s</span>' % text
+            else:
+                # without span <br/> is ignored!!!
+                text = '<span>%s</span>' % text
 
         scrollbar = self._browser.verticalScrollBar()
         old_value = scrollbar.value()
@@ -213,6 +217,12 @@ class TermWidget(QWidget):
     def add_line_break_to_input(self):
         self._edit.textCursor().insertText('\n')
 
+    def append_input(self, text):
+        """
+        Append text to output widget in bolded style
+        """
+        self._append_to_browser('in', text)
+
     def append_output(self, text):
         """
         Append text to output widget