Is it so hard to maintain a correct changelog site and tell us whats actually going on
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hi @Student_Pro @Haril_Satra @Nick_Difrancesco @Artemonim @smart1 and @Haruna_Oseni In the public release of 2.0 there will be an option to Export Notepads to Files so you can transfer them.
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wow thank u guys so much for listening to feedback and all
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You will find it in the Command Palette (CMD SHIFT P) (or CTRL SHIFT P for Windows)
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I still don’t understand why you can’t leave a notebook in Cursor where we can write personal notes about a project right inside Cursor.
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i just ran it and it went very smoothly , thank u
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@Artemonim The feature had a completely different purpose from most users current usage. Essentially they were not notes but AI rule files before we named them rules.
As Cursor is advancing, keeping older features that are not updated creates more bloat and more parts that can fail.
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the problem is not the feature you removed, but how Cursor did it.
I got zero warning → got a problem // instead of discovering 2.0 features
Why not to make a gradual transition with “[deprecated] Notepads” for a 6 weeks?
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@VasylPosmit thank you for the feedback. We tried to give as much heads up as possible but will sure look into longer period in the future.
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But so what it wasnt the intent of the feature? it was useful and loved by a lot of your customers, so why not just keep it and repurpose it to what the users are actually getting from it and even double down on it!!
That should be your way of thinking.
it gives value to your users that other features dont - so keep it, its as simple as that.
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Highly agree with that.
add to that just jotting down some question and rabbit holes to explore later while working on something, noting how a certain model did with some prompt style, quick copy pasting of terminal output that i want to focus on at a later time, plans and notes that i dont want the agent to read when its exploring the codebase, without having to do anything for it (and then undo it), and more.
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Please bring notepads back! To me they were less relevant for agentic tasks, but great for offloading/ staging ideas and upcoming tasks - especially in large workspaces across several repos. Yes, it would be possible to just create a markdown file in a repo, but the fact that notepads where always front-and-center made all the difference.
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Exactly
(And yes - the solution doesnt work for me)
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I think we all get your reasoning. But if a lot of users were using it (even if for a different purpose), it seems to be telling something. There is (still) a lot of value in having a place to let ideas mature (or rest, or potentially even die for that matter) outside the code and the agent prompt box. Sometimes even as a joint scratch pad that the agent(s) and I can look into and reason about.
And having to put this in all my repos & workspaces feels so much more awkward:
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can we have this back please? this is honestly pretty annoying
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I lost all my cursor rules; they’re simply no longer applied, and there’s nowhere to choose them. How frustrating! Why change things like this?
@Talles_Airan do you mean Notepads or Cursor rules?
We do have an option to export Notepads as reported in this thread.
If you issue is about Cursor Rules could you post a full separate Bug Report with more info Create Bug Report
@deejay99 thank you for the feedback. The feature has been deprecated and an Export option has been added to allow easier migration of data.
Notepads are super useful. I used it alot for on project ideas, commands, tracking issues, or to review, etc. Please bring it back. It’s a small little feature that brings a lot of QOL to cursor.
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Exactly
They should bring back the feature and detach it from being tagged in prompts
I never tagged them in prompts anyway as it wasnt obvious that was the intended use
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