# How to Make Jupyter Lab Behave Like Notebook?

**URL:** <https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/how-to-make-jupyter-lab-behave-like-notebook/23366>\
**Category:** Notebook\
**Tags:** help-wanted\
**Created:** [January 11, 2024, 4:16am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/how-to-make-jupyter-lab-behave-like-notebook/23366 "2024-01-11T04:16:30Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 4:16am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/how-to-make-jupyter-lab-behave-like-notebook/23366/1 "2024-01-11T04:16:30Z")

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Setting up a new Ubuntu 22.04 instance for my python development. I installed Jupyter via pip. Here are the related versions that I am getting from `pip freeze`

```auto
jupyter==1.0.0
jupyter-console==6.6.3
jupyter-events==0.9.0
jupyter-lsp==2.2.1
jupyter_client==8.6.0
jupyter_core==5.7.1
jupyter_server==2.12.3
jupyter_server_terminals==0.5.1
jupyterlab==4.0.10
jupyterlab-widgets==3.0.9
jupyterlab_pygments==0.3.0
jupyterlab_server==2.25.2

```

I wanted a classic jupyter notebook, however, it seems my pip command installed jupyter lab instead which I dislike. So, have they stopped supporting old fashioned jupyter notebook?

Also, it seems jupyter lab has a few user quirks (which are why I do not want it). Is there a way to go around them?

- When inside a notebook, I want to create a new notebook, by clicking File-\>New-\>Notebook, the new notebook appears in the home directory where the lab is running, not on the current notebook’s directory. I want the new notebook in my current directory.

Above all, how can I install the old fashioned notebook interface?

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**Author:** ![psychemedia](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/psychemedia/32/24_2.png) [@psychemedia](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/psychemedia)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 12:38pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/how-to-make-jupyter-lab-behave-like-notebook/23366/2 "2024-01-11T12:38:53Z")

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The classic UI is available as [GitHub - jupyter/nbclassic: Jupyter Notebook as a Jupyter Server extension](https://github.com/jupyter/nbclassic)

You can also run a notebook view using the new style (JupyterLab) UI framework: [GitHub - jupyter/notebook: Jupyter Interactive Notebook](https://github.com/jupyter/notebook)

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**Post date:** [January 11, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/how-to-make-jupyter-lab-behave-like-notebook/23366/3 "2024-01-11T15:09:59Z")

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> install the old fashioned notebook interface?

[`nbclassic`](https://pypi.org/project/nbclassic/) provides the jQuery notebook experience. Its maintenance is undefined, as it has approaching zero maintainers.

```bash
pip install nbclassic
# then
jupyter nbclassic

```

[`notebook 7`](https://blog.jupyter.org/announcing-jupyter-notebook-7-8d6d66126dcf) provides document-based workflow, but is built on maintained upstream tools (not `bower`, etc). It is currently maintained.

```bash
pip install notebook
# then
jupyter notebook

```

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**Post date:** [January 24, 2024, 3:49am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/how-to-make-jupyter-lab-behave-like-notebook/23366/4 "2024-01-24T03:49:47Z")

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When I create a new notebook by the File-\>New-\>Notebook menu, how to make it appear on the same directory as the current notebook, as opposed to the working directory of the jupyter server?