> [...] ask us to use yet another formatting tool (jupytext [...] Heh. Notice that jupytext is not merely a file format converter. It is a plugin to jupyter t

> [...] ask us to use yet another formatting tool (jupytext [...] Heh. Notice that jupytext is not merely a file format converter. It is a plugin to jupyter that allows it to treat python and markdown files as notebooks. This works both for input and output, with transparent and idempotent round-trips. Once you have this plugin you don't see ipynb files ever again (unless for some bizarre reason you specifically save your notebooks into this format).