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A notebook without markdown cells is a script with extra steps. Typally types what you say straight into Jupyter Notebook — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere Jupyter Notebook lets you type.
Disclosure: Typally is our product. We have tried to describe what Jupyter Notebook already does without talking you out of using it.None. Code and markdown cells are typed.
The entire point of a notebook is that the analysis is narrated alongside the code. In practice the markdown cells are empty, because writing them interrupts the flow of doing the analysis.
In practice people use it for: Markdown cells explaining each step, conclusions at the end, caveats about the data, and the summary someone else will read.
You do not configure anything in Jupyter Notebook. The hotkey works wherever your cursor happens to be:
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Text goes wherever Jupyter Notebook has focus. One click first saves undoing a paragraph in the wrong box.
Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.
Cells have edit and command modes. In command mode keystrokes are shortcuts, so dictating outside edit mode can delete or convert cells.
Typally types into markdown cells, so narrating what each step does stops being the thing you skip. Press Enter to get into edit mode on the cell first: in command mode a stray letter is a shortcut, and pressing d twice deletes the cell rather than typing into it.
An analyst narrates each step of a notebook as she goes: why this subset, what the outlier turned out to be, why the second model was abandoned. When the notebook is handed to a colleague it needs no walkthrough call.
Dictate the markdown cell before running the code below it. Saying what you expect to find is both documentation and a check on your own reasoning.
Cells have edit and command modes. In command mode keystrokes are shortcuts, so dictating outside edit mode can delete or convert cells.
Yes. Press Enter to get into edit mode on the cell first.
No. In command mode letters are shortcuts — d twice deletes a cell. Always be in edit mode.
Yes, both are text fields — the same mode caution applies.
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