Post-its for Mac Desktop: A Guide to Finding and Managing Your Notes

If you're using Post-it notes on your Mac desktop, you might be wondering where they are stored or how to access them easily. Unfortunately, there isn't much you can do with them directly, as they aren't text documents that you can manipulate like regular files.

To find your Post-it notes, you'll need to navigate through a few folders. One way to do this is by using the Terminal command: `open ~/Library/Containers//Data/Library/CoreData/*/*/Note/_records`. This will open the 'Note' folder, which contains the '_records' folder. From there, you can find individual notes with 32-character hyphenated names that you can open.

Alternatively, you can use the 'Go to Folder...' option in the Finder's Go menu and paste in `~/Library/Containers//Data/Library/CoreData/ExternalRecords`. This will take you directly to the folder containing your Post-it notes. In OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) or later, these notes are not stored as individual text documents that you can see or manipulate.

Even if you choose to save your Post-it notes 'On my Mac', they'll still be sandboxed in a location like `~/Library/Containers//Data/Library/CoreData/ExternalRecords/AA97DB8E-73B4-4C75-B54F-B39E5BC7521F/Note/_records/0/p6.notesexternalrecord`. This folder is usually invisible, but you can access it by navigating to the 'Library' folder that sits alongside your other folders like 'Documents', 'Music', and 'Pictures'.

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