Are they though? Does anyone actually use JupyterLab by choice?
From what I've seen people love Jupyter Notebook but find JupyterLab misses the mark (and this is certainly my experience).
That being said, I'm glad they've switched course and continue to work on Notebook once it became clear some people preferred it to Lab. With some of the added features and the ability to switch between Lab and Notebook more easily, I may give Notebook another try.
That being said, I usually just stick to one notebook per thing.
(I'm sorry for the questions that could be answered from documentation, but I can't find the docs on this feature! I have been wanting to specify data cells in a notebook, like the markdown cells, and then reference their contents from a code cell)
I started strongly advocating for it pretty much immediately. The waste of space on the margins of the notebook view was (is?) awful.
If that is your only concern, it will probably be quite easy to write a user style sheet to fix it.
I always use JupyterLab by choice.
However between JupyterLab and VS Code Jupyter, it’s VS Code every time. It’s just so much better.
I always thought people only still used vanilla notebooks because that's what people say they use, e.g. "I work with Jupyter notebooks" (even though that may well be in JupyterLab). So most regular users wouldn't necessarily know about JupyterLab.
What is your setup?
There is literally no downside to using it over notebook, why would you prefer notebook at all?
the file browsers, the terminal, the plugins, ... so much better
Would you mind sharing the areas where you feel lab falls short and where notebook does it better?
I want to give notebooks a try.