finding a notebook - and sorry for such a newbie question

[Johnny Ragadoo]

I've searched Google and the documentation. I've been using BBEdit for a while, and I can't believe I'm not finding this answer myself.

I like to use notebooks for writing copy for Affinity Publisher projects.

Today I created a new notebook and ended up not being able to find it on my Mac. I can open it from the recents list, but spotlight, the Finder search, and command line mdfind can't find it on my Mac.

The View->Show in Finder is grayed out. I think the notebook must be in some internal place, but I'd like to save it as a separate file in a place of my choosing.

Any idea how to find where my notebook file ended up?

Many thanks in advance.

[Johnny Ragadoo]

A followup. I had stored the file in Curio and completely forgotten that's where I had created it.

It exists as a regular package in a regular directory. Curio isn't playing games with it.

I would still like to know how to walk up to my Mac after a three beer lunch and discover where the open document is located. Not sure why show in Finder was grayed out. Even if I navigate to the notebook file in Finder and double click open it there, ignoring Curio altogether, Show in Finder remains inactive.

Thanks in advance!

[Rich Siegel]

The conventional Command-click in the title bar should do.

R.

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[Patrick Woolsey]

First, for reference, please note :-) that notebooks are not
individual files but rather bundles with an extension type of ".bbnotebookd".

BBEdit's default notebook is stored within its app support
folder, and is always available by selecting Window -> Notes.

Alternatively, you may create stand-alone notebooks via File ->
New -> Notebook... and store these in any available filesystem location.

Last but not least :-) you can determine the location of a
stand-alone notebook by closing all open notes and then
Command-Clicking the notebook's name in the title bar to show
its location.


Regards

Patrick Woolsey
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Bare Bones Software, Inc. <https://www.barebones.com/>

[Johnny Ragadoo]

Thanks, Patrick. Rich. Notebooks are a cool feature and command-clicking does the trick with a nice path list. I think I had done that but blew past the path components as being recents, or something like that.

I use BBEdit for many things. Coding, troubleshooting ePub (which are just zip files), and for examination of other document types that are actually zip archives. Being able to open and modify zip files without extracting them outside of BBEdit - man, that's nice!

For many purposes, BBEdit is indispensable.

BBEdit is my favorite for plain text writing. I prefer it to more consumer-y Markdown editors like iaWriter and that's a good case for notebook files. It works like Scrivener for plain text if Scrivener had BBEdit's power. Which it doesn't. BBEdit is a very cool product.

Thanks again, Patrick and Rich, both for the answer I needed and your patience with such a pedestrian question!

[Ray Lancashire]

Hi Johnny

 

Have you tried  ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/

 

You might find the default .bbnotebookd file in the BBEdit folder in the Applications Support folder.

 

Have you searched for files on your Mac with the file extension .bbnotebookd 

 

Ray