Notebooks are used for crunching data, for scientific, mathematical, or engineering purposes, and showing your work (revealing to your colleagues exactly how th

Notebooks are used for crunching data, for scientific, mathematical, or engineering purposes, and showing your work (revealing to your colleagues exactly how the data was crunched). If you're deploying them to production you get what you f'n deserve. That said, when I'm writing code, if I want it to be good quality code then I might use org-mode and its literate programming facilities to type up my thoughts, interlineating code as necessary. This is more useful on greenfield and personal stuff, but there is a high probability that I too have undiagnosed ADHD and the use of org-mode helps to organize and clarify my thoughts before I commit them to code. It is a hallmark of the programmer personality to jump into coding without thinking things through beforehand -- or really, sometimes, at all. The management consultant Tim Bryce wrote about a programming class he took in the 70s: "When given an assignment, the other two members of my team started coding immediately, then keyed up the source code (Yes, we were using punchcards back then), and kept compiling and debugging until they finally got a clean compile. While this was going on, I pulled out my trusty old template, worked out the logic, wrote the code, keyed it up and usually got a clean compile on my first shot. Inevitably, I beat my teammates everytime." The use of org-mode and LP helps with these organization and planning issues... well, at least it does for me.