Deprecating Notepads in Cursor

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I just asked Cursor to recover them for me since I didn’t want to go through the trouble of downgrading.

Prompt:

Cursor deprecated Notepads and I lost mine. Can you help me recover them?

Here's what I need you to do:

1. Search for notepad data in my Cursor workspace storage databases:

   - macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage/

   - Linux: ~/.config/Cursor/User/workspaceStorage/

   - Windows: %APPDATA%\Cursor\User\workspaceStorage\

2. Look in each workspace folder for state.vscdb files (SQLite databases)

3. Query each database for notepad data:

   SELECT value FROM ItemTable WHERE key='notepadData';

4. Extract all the notepads you find and create two files in my current workspace:

   - recovered_notepads.md (human-readable markdown format)

   - recovered_notepads_raw.json (raw JSON backup)

5. Show me a summary of what you found (how many notepads, from which workspaces).

The notepad data is stored as JSON with this structure:

{

  "notepads": {

    "<id>": {

      "name": "Notepad Name",

      "text": "Notepad content...",

      "createdAt": timestamp

    }

  }

}



Please format the markdown file nicely with:

- Each notepad as a section

- The notepad name as a heading

- Creation date if available

- The full notepad text
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