I’ve been using Jupyter, but I know there is also Pluto, and perhaps others. Does anyone have suggestions or preferences?

I have used both in the past, but recently I found the trick to disable the internal package manager of Pluto , and I think this my best notebook experience so far.

I used Jupyter in my Python days, but only use Pluto in Julia. Pluto has the advantage of being internally consistent, which is a big bonus over Jupypter for integrated projects and reactivity. The trick to avoid package conflicts, as mentioned above, is to use project Environments and install all…

Pluto is satisfying. Another workaround you might need though is to save outputs of long calculations (e.g. using Serialization) and hide those cells from the reactivity somehow. I’ve used just an if-else switch that I change when ready to re-run.

My current preference is Quarto. It does support Jupyter notebooks, however, I like its cell mode best. If I need more static output I use Quarto’s HTML capabilities and in case of PDFs its support for Latex KOMA-Script (I have not tried Typst yet). Of course, I like Pluto as well.

There is also Neptune.jl, but I am not sure if it is still maintained. I have not used it, but I think Neptune was supposed to be somewhat of a feature comprise between Jupyter style cells and Pluto reactivity.

For fast prototyping I prefer Pluto.jl – together with the trick of using my local environment if I prototype on development branches. A nice thing is that a Pluto notebook is also just a Julia script file (with fancy comments) For “final versions” I prefer Quarto, since that renders nicely into e.…

I also use both Jupyter and Pluto, depending on the use case, but for Jupyter, the Jupytext extension is absolutely essential and gets around pretty much all problems with the .ipynb format.

Nice, I have to try that somewhen; every now and then I have to use notebooks when Teaching numerics, which is here in Python (I still advertise a bit of Julia for sure).

Pluto every time. To handle the long running problem, I tend to make lots of changes without pressing enter, then when all my inputs are ready, I press ctrl+s to save and it runs everything just once.

What are people using for notebooks?

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I use cell mode in my own branch of vscode extension which has saving of inline results to file to survive vscode window reloads. Since I don’ t need many plots and prefer more info density of inline results.

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