Indeed! I find working in notebooks to be singularly unpleasant, mainly because of lack of full IDE support. Others have deeper reasons to dislike notebooks:

Indeed! I find working in notebooks to be singularly unpleasant, mainly because of lack of full IDE support. Others have deeper reasons to dislike notebooks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19859913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19859913 As a note to OP, messaging your solution as “turn your notebook into an app” may not be optimal — you will loose many who abhor working in notebooks.