diff --git a/src/gui_qt/lib/logger.py b/src/gui_qt/lib/logger.py
index 0570d84..e1cb93c 100644
--- a/src/gui_qt/lib/logger.py
+++ b/src/gui_qt/lib/logger.py
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
+import logging
 from pathlib import Path
 
+from PyQt5 import QtWidgets
+
 from .codeeditor import _make_textformats
 from ..Qt import QtWidgets, QtCore, QtGui
 from nmreval.configs import config_paths
@@ -113,3 +116,27 @@ class QLog(QtWidgets.QDialog):
 
         for lines in text[-100:]:
             self.plainTextEdit.appendPlainText(lines[:-1])
+
+
+class ConsoleDock(QtWidgets.QDockWidget):
+    def __init__(self, parent=None):
+        super().__init__(parent=parent)
+
+        self.code = QtWidgets.QPlainTextEdit(parent)
+        self.code.highlight = LogHighlighter(self.code.document())
+        self.code.setReadOnly(True)
+        self.code.setMaximumBlockCount(50)
+        self.setWidget(self.code)
+
+
+class QTextHandler(logging.Handler):
+    def __init__(self, parent):
+        super().__init__()
+
+        self.console = ConsoleDock(parent)
+        self.setFormatter(logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s'))
+
+    def emit(self, record):
+        msg = self.format(record)
+        self.console.code.appendPlainText(msg)
+        self.console.show()
diff --git a/src/gui_qt/lib/utils.py b/src/gui_qt/lib/utils.py
index 2f06820..5d87d1c 100644
--- a/src/gui_qt/lib/utils.py
+++ b/src/gui_qt/lib/utils.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ from ..Qt import QtGui, QtWidgets, QtCore
 @contextmanager
 def busy_cursor():
     try:
-        cursor = QtGui.QCursor(QtCore.Qt.ForbiddenCursor)
+        cursor = QtGui.QCursor(QtCore.Qt.CursorShape.ForbiddenCursor)
         QtWidgets.QApplication.setOverrideCursor(cursor)
         yield
 
diff --git a/src/gui_qt/main/console.py b/src/gui_qt/main/console.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b28b04f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/gui_qt/main/console.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+
+
+
diff --git a/src/gui_qt/main/mainwindow.py b/src/gui_qt/main/mainwindow.py
index d91b3ac..7f637d4 100644
--- a/src/gui_qt/main/mainwindow.py
+++ b/src/gui_qt/main/mainwindow.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ from nmreval.lib.logger import logger
 from nmreval.io.sessionwriter import NMRWriter
 
 from .management import UpperManagement
+from ..lib.logger import ConsoleDock, QTextHandler
 from ..Qt import QtGui, QtPrintSupport
 from ..data.shift_graphs import QShift
 from ..data.signaledit import QPreviewDialog, QBaselineDialog
@@ -62,6 +63,11 @@ class NMRMainWindow(QtWidgets.QMainWindow, Ui_BaseWindow):
         self.eval = None
         self.editor = None
 
+        self.logtext = QTextHandler(self)
+        logger.addHandler(self.logtext)
+        self.addDockWidget(QtCore.Qt.DockWidgetArea.BottomDockWidgetArea, self.logtext.console)
+        self.logtext.console.hide()
+
         self.movedialog = QMover(self)
 
         self.current_graph_widget = None