This is not the most brilliant hint, but it might save time to some. There is a feature in Console.app that makes the application remember which windows you have open when you quit the app, and it displays those windows again on relaunch. However, if you've been looking at logs that are not in one of the four hard-coded locations, you end up with blank windows.
If you create a symbolic link between the custom logs (or their folders) and one of the hard-coded folders, Console.app will be able to show the last opened logs instead of blank windows upon application launch. I use this for my MacPorts Apache install:
$ mkdir /Library/Logs/org.macports
$ ln -s /opt/local/apache2/logs/ /Library/Logs/org.macports/apache2
I've always had to close these windows and use the Open Recent menu item to access my MacPorts Apache logs. Not any more. I can create a nice layout of a few log windows, which Console.app will remember at every launch.
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