diff --git a/news/changelog-1.5.md b/news/changelog-1.5.md
index 37dc15d108..e6d26824a7 100644
--- a/news/changelog-1.5.md
+++ b/news/changelog-1.5.md
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ All changes included in 1.5:
 
 ## Jupyter
 
+- ([#4802](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/4802)): Change name of temporary input notebook to avoid accidental overwriting.
 - ([#8433](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/8433)): Escape jupyter widget states that contain `</script>` so they can be embedded in HTML documents.
 
 ## Website Listings
diff --git a/src/execute/jupyter/jupyter.ts b/src/execute/jupyter/jupyter.ts
index 741fe6ac46..5a441762ba 100644
--- a/src/execute/jupyter/jupyter.ts
+++ b/src/execute/jupyter/jupyter.ts
@@ -185,7 +185,13 @@ export const jupyterEngine: ExecutionEngine = {
     if (isQmdFile(file) || isPercentScript) {
       // write a transient notebook
       const [fileDir, fileStem] = dirAndStem(file);
-      const notebook = join(fileDir, fileStem + ".ipynb");
+      // See #4802
+      // I don't love using an extension other than .ipynb for this file,
+      // but doing something like .quarto.ipynb would require a lot
+      // of additional changes to our file handling code (without changes,
+      // our output files would be called $FILE.quarto.html, which
+      // is not what we want). So for now, we'll use .quarto_ipynb
+      const notebook = join(fileDir, fileStem + ".quarto_ipynb");
       const target = {
         source: file,
         input: notebook,