Using nbextensions for adding features to your notebook

There exist a number of useful contributed but unofficial extensions that add useful features to your notebooks.

From the classic Notebook UI you can access the available extensions in a separate tab as displayed in the screenshot, below. You may have to unselect the disable configuration for nbextensions without explicit copatibility. The extensions we tested still worked fine with this jupyterhub version of 1.0.0.

Launch Classic Notebook

Extensions for working with large notebooks

Especially the following extensions make working with larger notebooks easier

  • Table of Contents: Displays a TOC on the left and you can also configure it to add and update a TOC at the head of the document.
  • Collapsible Headings: allows you to fold all the cells below a heading

It may also be interesting for you to explore the Jupytext server extension.

Variable Inspector

The variable inspector extension provides a constantly updated window in which you can see the value and type of your notebook’s variables.