Jupyter Book (and the larger jupyter ecosystem now) are starting to standardize on MyST notebooks as a version-control friendly all text notebook format. It's

Jupyter Book (and the larger jupyter ecosystem now) are starting to standardize on MyST notebooks as a version-control friendly all text notebook format. It's similar to r markdown and uses fenced code blocks to represent code cells. You can diff them, edit in any text editor, etc. See: https://myst-nb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ https://myst-nb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/