Change Cell, run, view result, and scroll all the way back to the original cell

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I am new to this forum.
I have used jupyter notebook in a firefox browser for a while and suddenly it hits me that a lot of time is spent in changing a statment in cell, run it, and view the results many pages down, and then scroll all the way back to exact cell where I made the last
change. In other words, I cannot stay in the same cell and run and view the result in another window.

I have been programming a lot in Fortran or C, and I have a window to hold source code location in vi, and another window
I can compile and run the binary. I can see the output and then decide to make other changes the source code
in the same location.

My productivity drops in jupyter if I keep scrolling up and down. Any way to improve the situation?

Thanks.

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Are you using JupyterLab by any chance?
In JupyterLab, you can open multiple views of the notebook by right-clicking the name tab at top, and selecting ‘New View for Notebook’.
See examples:

  • under ‘Create multiple synchronized views of a single notebook:’ here. (Direct link to video).
  • #2 ’ Side by Side’ here.

The arranging that can be done can go way beyond side-by-side, as well.

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You can also open up a single cell output into another JupyterLab tab. Just right click on the output and select “create new view of output”. That sounds like exactly what you wanted.

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Thanks for reply.

Sounds really exciting.

I have been using anaconda3 in Linux to “install” jupyeter notebook. Does
anaconda3 have jupyeterlab?

If not, I have to hunt down the “easiest” way
to install jupyeterlab on my CentOS7 (Linux centos73-asus 3.10.0-1160.41.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 31 14:52:47 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux) .

Any quick advice?

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conda install -c conda-forge jupyterlab in anaconda3 works. Will explore more!

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