diff --git a/SharpFM.App/App.axaml.cs b/SharpFM.App/App.axaml.cs
index 7b0d262..aa4cbc6 100644
--- a/SharpFM.App/App.axaml.cs
+++ b/SharpFM.App/App.axaml.cs
@@ -2,11 +2,15 @@
 using Avalonia.Controls.ApplicationLifetimes;
 using Avalonia.Markup.Xaml;
 using SharpFM.App.ViewModels;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
+using NLog.Extensions.Logging;
 
 namespace SharpFM.App;
 
 public partial class App : Application
 {
+    ILogger logger = LoggerFactory.Create(builder => builder.AddNLog()).CreateLogger<MainWindow>();
+
     public override void Initialize()
     {
         AvaloniaXamlLoader.Load(this);
@@ -18,7 +22,7 @@ public override void OnFrameworkInitializationCompleted()
         {
             desktop.MainWindow = new MainWindow
             {
-                DataContext = new MainWindowViewModel()
+                DataContext = new MainWindowViewModel(logger)
             };
         }
 
diff --git a/SharpFM.App/SharpFM.App.csproj b/SharpFM.App/SharpFM.App.csproj
index 9f0d738..3ed9b97 100644
--- a/SharpFM.App/SharpFM.App.csproj
+++ b/SharpFM.App/SharpFM.App.csproj
@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@
       <IncludeAssets>runtime; build; native; contentfiles; analyzers; buildtransitive</IncludeAssets>
       <PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets>
     </PackageReference>
+    
+    <PackageReference Include="NLog" Version="5.2.4" />
+    <PackageReference Include="NLog.Extensions.Logging" Version="5.3.4" />
+
+    <None Update="nlog.config" CopyToOutputDirectory="Always" />
 
     <ProjectReference Include="..\SharpFM.Core\SharpFM.Core.csproj" />
   </ItemGroup>
diff --git a/SharpFM.App/ViewModels/MainWindowViewModel.cs b/SharpFM.App/ViewModels/MainWindowViewModel.cs
index a244318..c306375 100644
--- a/SharpFM.App/ViewModels/MainWindowViewModel.cs
+++ b/SharpFM.App/ViewModels/MainWindowViewModel.cs
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 using Avalonia;
 using Avalonia.Controls.ApplicationLifetimes;
 using FluentAvalonia.UI.Data;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
 using SharpFM.App.Models;
 using SharpFM.Core;
 
@@ -14,7 +15,9 @@ namespace SharpFM.App.ViewModels;
 
 public partial class MainWindowViewModel : INotifyPropertyChanged
 {
-    public ClipDbContext _context;
+    private readonly ILogger _logger;
+
+    public readonly ClipDbContext _context;
 
     public event PropertyChangedEventHandler? PropertyChanged;
 
@@ -23,12 +26,14 @@ private void NotifyPropertyChanged([CallerMemberName] string propertyName = "")
         PropertyChanged?.Invoke(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
     }
 
-    public MainWindowViewModel()
+    public MainWindowViewModel(ILogger logger)
     {
+        _logger = logger;
+
         _context = new ClipDbContext();
         _context.Database.EnsureCreated();
 
-        Console.WriteLine($"Database path: {_context.DbPath}.");
+        _logger.LogInformation($"Database path: {_context.DbPath}.");
 
         FileMakerClips = new ObservableCollection<ClipViewModel>();
 
@@ -104,6 +109,7 @@ public void NewEmptyItem()
         }
         catch (Exception e)
         {
+            _logger.LogCritical("Error creating new Clip.", e);
         }
     }
 
@@ -129,6 +135,7 @@ public void CopyAsClass()
         }
         catch (Exception e)
         {
+            _logger.LogCritical("Error Copying as Class.", e);
         }
     }
 
@@ -171,6 +178,7 @@ public async Task PasteFileMakerClipData()
         }
         catch (Exception e)
         {
+            _logger.LogCritical("Error translating FileMaker blob to Xml.", e);
         }
     }
 
@@ -196,6 +204,7 @@ public async Task CopySelectedToClip()
         }
         catch (Exception e)
         {
+            _logger.LogCritical("Error returning the selected Clip FileMaker blob format.", e);
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/SharpFM.App/nlog.config b/SharpFM.App/nlog.config
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a30671f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/SharpFM.App/nlog.config
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!-- XSD manual extracted from package NLog.Schema: https://www.nuget.org/packages/NLog.Schema-->
+<nlog xmlns="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="NLog NLog.xsd"
+    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+    autoReload="true"
+    internalLogFile="c:\temp\console-example-internal.log"
+    internalLogLevel="Info">
+
+    <!-- the targets to write to -->
+    <targets>
+        <!-- write logs to file -->
+        <!-- write logs to the visual studio code "debug console" -->
+        <target name="logconsole" xsi:type="ColoredConsole" enableAnsiOutput="true"
+            layout="${time}|${uppercase:${level:padding=5}}|${mdlc:item=ScopeName}|${ndlctiming:currentScope=true}|${logger}|${message} ${exception:format=tostring:innerFormat=tostring:maxInnerExceptionLevel=2}"
+            useDefaultRowHighlightingRules="true">
+            <!-- explicitly use nlog color coding with a few adjustments for consistent display -->
+            <highlight-row condition="level == LogLevel.Fatal" foregroundColor="Red" />
+            <highlight-row condition="level == LogLevel.Error" foregroundColor="Yellow" />
+            <highlight-row condition="level == LogLevel.Warn" foregroundColor="Magenta" />
+            <highlight-row condition="level == LogLevel.Info" foregroundColor="Cyan" />
+            <highlight-row condition="level == LogLevel.Debug" foregroundColor="Green" />
+            <highlight-row condition="level == LogLevel.Trace" foregroundColor="DarkGray" />
+        </target>
+
+        <target xsi:type="File" name="logfile"
+            fileName="${specialfolder:folder=ApplicationData}\SharpFM.log"
+            layout="${longdate}|${uppercase:${level:padding=5}}|${mdlc:item=ScopeName}|${ndlctiming:currentScope=true}|${logger}|${message} ${exception:format=tostring:innerFormat=tostring:maxInnerExceptionLevel=2}" />
+    </targets>
+
+    <!-- rules to map from logger name to target -->
+    <rules>
+        <logger name="*" minlevel="Trace" writeTo="logfile,logconsole" />
+    </rules>
+</nlog>
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