Introducing Native Notebooks

Dealing with some small experience issues? See if your issue already exists under our "papercut" label, or create a new one here: Papercut Issues for Notebooks

Notebook Quick Start

• To create a new notebook open the command palette (Windows: Ctrl + Shift + P, iOS: Command + Shift + P) and select the command "Jupyter: Create New Blank Jupyter Notebook"

• Select your kernel by clicking on the kernel picker in the bottom right of the status bar or by invoking the "Notebook: Select Notebook Kernel" command.

Notebook Tour Guide

Notebook Toolbar

Cell Toolbar - Customizable via Notebook: Cell Toolbar Location setting

Kernel Picker

Language Picker

Add code and markdown cells

Cell Execution

Connect to a remote Jupyter server by clicking on the action in the bottom right of the status bar or by invoking the "Jupyter: Specify local or remote Jupyter server for connections" command.

If you would like to opt-out of Native Notebooks:

• Open the command palette (Windows: Ctrl + Shift + P, iOS: Command + Shift + P) and select "Preferences: Open Settings (JSON)"
• Add the following code to your JSON settings: "jupyter.experiments.optOutFrom": ["NativeNotebookEditor"]
• Remove the following code from your workbench.editorAssociations section in your JSON settings:

{
      "viewType": "jupyter-notebook",
      "filenamePattern": "*.ipynb"
}