Notebook file formats

A notebook mixes runnable code, the results it produced and written notes in one document. They are popular for data analysis, teaching and research.

Formats

.IPYNB

Jupyter notebook

Code, notes and saved results as cells in a JSON document.

.NB

Wolfram notebook

Mathematica notebooks: cells of text, input and output as one expression.

.PY

marimo notebook

Reactive Python notebooks saved as plain .py files, one function per cell.

.QMD

Quarto document

Markdown with Python, R or Julia cells, rendered to pages, PDFs and slides.

.RMD

R Markdown

Markdown with chunks of R code, rendered into reports with the results.

.ZPLN

Apache Zeppelin note

Zeppelin notes: paragraphs for Spark, SQL or Python, with results, in JSON.