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The solution I use for local jupyter notebooks is nteract [0] which is like a standalone application that can edit/open .ipynb files.

It has a few quirks, but works quite good for daily use.

[0] https://nteract.io/

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What do you like about nteract over Jupyter's frontend? The website is devoid of details.

It's convenient to directly open a notebook from a browser download or a slack message without having to fire up jupyter in a terminal and navigate it to that temp file.

I use vscode to open and run notebooks using the jupyter plugin. Works great. Don’t need to fire up the browser

Vscode is now my go-to for opening and running notebooks. The issue I had with the normal jupyter was it it's support for normal python files were bad. With vscode I can work on both normal python files and notebook files in the same window without much overhead

Pycharm is also excellent at this. My biggest problem with the normal jupyter interface is years of reflex that Ctrl+w is for deleting words. Quite annoying in a web browser.

Yeah, that's exactly the same reasoning. Because it's more convenient you run your notebooks in a dedicated tool. Nteract or Vscode or Pycharm..

I like that it is a standalone notepad.exe-like program that opens my notebook and just works. I usually use it more for looking at notebooks than writing them tho.

vscodium can also open ipynb files, to give an alternative.

I try to work mostly with "py:percent" script files now, in the same jupyter notebook style but without saving outputs.

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