As of the end of October 2025, we will be deprecating the Notepads feature from within Cursor. Why did Notepads exist? Notepads were an early attempt at building reusable packages of critical context: coding best practices, pre-requisite info for the agent, prompt templates and more. They let users…

@condor Is there any way to recover my Notepads? I’ve been using them to keep high-level project contexts, including PRDs. I didn’t notice any prior warning before upgrading to the latest version, and unfortunately, I don’t have a backup of those notes — they’re quite important for the ongoing devel…

Hey, you can rollback to the previous version, that should help.

Yes downgrading the App worked for me. Thanks for the help!

im on 2 , is there like a folder on my mac where they are stored so i can just copy it instead of downgrading?

Notepads was a great feature for storing individual temporary notes inside a project. By the way, why is there no dislike emoji on the forum? :thinking:

And of course I have to go to the forum every day to find out that my Notepads have been taken away from me and I have to migrate the data from them in time, because, of course, Cursor app DOESN’T TELL ME ANYTHING about this change.

Notepad was a feature I loved and talked highly about, it was quick and git didn’t recognize it, I had docs, api’s, insights from team convos etc. C’mon cursor team, bring Notepad back!

Yeh it was a place just to Jot down my thoughts but anyone knows in what cache or something I can find it on my Mac so I don’t have to downgrade?

Deprecating Notepads in Cursor

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condor (Condor (Tee)) October 24, 2025, 6:51am 5

@smart1 @rahulretnan which version are you on now? if you are still on 1.7.x the Notepads must be visible

2.0 has lost a lot of functionality I can no longer use Cursor

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Deprecating Notepads in Cursor

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