Project Jupyter was born out of the IPython project as the project evolved to become a notebook that could support multiple languages – hence its historical name as the IPython notebook. Now let’s dive in to our list of 28 (and counting!) Jupyter notebook tips! Jupyter is quite extensible, supports many programming languages and is easily hosted on your computer or on almost any server - you only need to have ssh or http access. Thanks to Alex for graciously letting us republish his work here.) We have expanded the post and will continue to do so over time - if you have a suggestion please let us know. (This post is based on a post that originally appeared on Alex Rogozhnikov’s blog, ‘Brilliantly Wrong’. In this post, we’ve collected some of the top Jupyter notebook tips to quickly turn you into a Jupyter power user! Jupyter notebook, formerly known as the IPython notebook, is a flexible tool that helps you create readable analyses, as you can keep code, images, comments, formulae and plots together. If you're familiar with HTML, and need a tool to do basic markup without getting in your way, I'd encourage you to look into markdown editors: you might just find that they remove several steps from a task that should be about expressing yourself in human language, not wrangling tags.Įnjoy this piece? I invite you to follow me at /dudleystorey to learn more.Octo28 Jupyter Notebook Tips, Tricks, and Shortcuts Jupyter Notebook This article was written in Mou, which is (as of this writing) only available for Mac, although there are other markdown editors for Windows: MarkdownPad is very similar to Mou. Both also have a minimum of buttons: simply start them up (Mou is less than 2MB in size) and start typing. They also have excellent specific features: the easy ability to add images, search based on patterns, auto completion, and support for multiple languages. Both offer the features supplied by Word – inline spellcheck, correct typography – but generate correct markup at the same time. My personal favourite markdown editors are Mou and Macdown. Preparation List for the Zombie Apocalypseįood and water for at least 60 days (very important!) * Food and water for at least 60 days ( *very important!*) Invented by John Gruber (of Daring Fireball) and the late Aaron Swartz, Markdown exists at a halfway point between a fully-featured webpage creation tool and a text editor: using a few, instinctive text shortcuts, a markdown process will take this: #Preparation List for the Zombie Apocalypse For such a task the Word-DreamWeaver route takes too long, and DreamWeaver by itself is too much (and won't do correct typography).Įnter a compromise between the two: the markdown editor. But sometimes you just need to create a quick bit of text with markup: for example, writing a few paragraphs for a blog entry, or a short article for a CMS. It is a system that works well, and is still my go-to option. In the past I've suggested a particular workflow to creating body copy for web pages: write the text in Microsoft Word (taking advantage of the program's inline grammar and spell checking, correct typography, and easy exchange of the file with clients), then transfer the text into your web editor of choice, clean up the markup, and use the resulting HTML in your web page.