# Notebooks activates project automatically (when started with binder)

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/notebooks-activates-project-automatically-when-started-with-binder/62944>\
**Category:** Jupyter-Notebook\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [June 15, 2021, 12:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/notebooks-activates-project-automatically-when-started-with-binder/62944 "2021-06-15T12:36:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![bennibolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bennibolm/32/25707_2.png) [@bennibolm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bennibolm)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 12:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/notebooks-activates-project-automatically-when-started-with-binder/62944/1 "2021-06-15T12:36:50Z")

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Hello everyone,  
I have a question regarding the answer from [ANN: mybinder.org support for Julia 1.x and Project.toml](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-mybinder-org-support-for-julia-1-x-and-project-toml/22522/33).  
I added a local `Project.toml` to the sub folder with the notebooks, but when I start the notebook (via binder) this local project is not activated (the packages are not installed).  
Do I misunderstand the answer and only the `.toml` from the root is activated automatically? It would be pretty nice if one could add packages that are only needed in the notebooks with a “local” `Project.toml`.

@davidanthoff It seems that you know a lot about this. I would be very pleased to get an answer.  
Thanks a lot.

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**Author:** ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 5:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/notebooks-activates-project-automatically-when-started-with-binder/62944/2 "2021-06-15T17:12:16Z")

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Yes, the current implementation only activates and instantiates things in the root.

And yes, agreed, it would be nice to look through all directories and instantiate all `Project.toml`/`Manifest.toml` instances, and then configure Julia to run with `JULIA_PROJECT=@.` so that these environments are automatically used.

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**Author:** ![bennibolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bennibolm/32/25707_2.png) [@bennibolm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bennibolm)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2021, 7:16am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/notebooks-activates-project-automatically-when-started-with-binder/62944/3 "2021-06-16T07:16:37Z")

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Thanks a lot for the answer.  
If I’m right then, the only two possibilities are to activate it manually in the notebooks, what takes a long time and is not really nice, or to create an extra repository for the notebooks or rather for my tutorials I want to set up right now.