Hi all! Along with my teammates Markelle and Marisa, I am working on a “Focus mode” project (sometimes referred to as “Zen mode”). Our goal is to minimize the perception of clutter in JupyterLab by offering an easy-to-learn, document-focused alternative interface. Similar to Yuvi’s Simplest Noteboo…

This sounds like an excellent idea, and something that we could definitely use in teaching here at Berkeley!

Are you focussing on simple in the UI view, or simple elsewhere… eg this repo branch (which works in MyBinder) sets up a Jupyter environment using Jupytext that lets you author markdown files (.md) and run them, via Jupytext, as a notebook, but the save format is just .md (no ipynb). To create a ne…

Thanks for sharing feedback all. Our goal of the project is to uncover barriers that can make JupyterLab difficult to use. We hope to use these insights to learn more about how people use JupyterLab. Here are some questions that we have: Have you used Classic Notebook? How does it compare to Jupyte…

I think @Eric_Van_Dusen @yuvipanda and @willingc could be interested in these questions from their experiences in education w notebooks

Hi - Yes - we use classic notebook for teaching a lot. The idea in some ways is specifically to not give a first-time user a view that looks like and IDE but a view that looks like a written page - so that the familiarity and lack of options will focus them on some simple learning outcomes. In some…

To all who have given feedback, thanks so much :slightly_smiling_face: . I have been toying with the idea of Progressive Disclosure as a good lens to solve this type of problem. I am also looking into features that are currently underserved.

One thing to think of for inspiration might be the Adobe suite of tools. I like how they have different layouts you can customize and then make then one click away, as well as a set of out-of-the-box layouts for new users -> more advanced users.

Thanks for all your feedback y’all. We have taken the direction of making this a “Single Document Mode”. Would love to hear some thoughts. [image%20(1)]

Also, this project has begun a conversation of what it looks like to install packages with a UI. Here is a gif of what it looks like. We are working at getting a binder link working. [example]

oh wow! I think it looks great! Really nice job Do you have a demo somewhere for people to try? Maybe a Binder?

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Yes, and there is an announcement topic on Discourse:

Topic		Replies	Views
Benefits of the classic UI and use cases for classic over JupyterLab (Was: Why is Tim not moving to lab?) General	20	7374	May 27, 2021
Minimal layout for newbies JupyterLab	7	1287	July 23, 2019
Seeking feedback: JupyterLab Single-Document mode switch position JupyterLab	21	3087	May 21, 2021
Any recent usage polling on Jupyter Lab vs. Notebook usage? Meta community	21	6609	June 4, 2020
Could you please bring back the Classic View in JupyterHub? JupyterHub jupyterhub	2	633	January 31, 2024

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