WORKFLOW

Find the Size of a Notebook

In Memory...

Choose Cell ▶ Notebook History and open the Cell Statistics section. “Content bytes” gives the memory used to store cell expressions. “Total bytes” includes memory used for cell labels, cell tags, etc.:

  • Cell Statistics does not include memory used for non-cell notebook data.
  • Memory usage shown in Cell Statistics does not include memory used by the kernel to store input expressions and the results of evaluations.

In Storage...

Get the size of a notebook file with FileSize:

Notes
Use ByteCount to find the amount of memory used by an expression in the kernel. The value returned is the memory occupied by the argument expression after evaluation:
The approximate total memory footprint of a notebook can be calculated by evaluating MemoryInUse[$FrontEnd] before and after opening a notebook:
Since the memory figures may include memory used or freed by front end processes other than those associated with the notebook, the calculated usage is not exact.