Scratchpad notebook extension

Adds a scratchpad cell to Jupyter notebook. This is a cell in which you can execute code against the current kernel without modifying the notebook document.

The scratchpad can be toggled by clicking the icon in the bottom-right, or via the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-B.

Install

You can install with bower:

bower install --config.directory="$(jupyter --data-dir)/nbextensions" nbextension-scratchpad

Or clone the repo manually:

git clone git://github.com/minrk/nbextension-scratchpad
jupyter nbextension install nbextension-scratchpad

And enable the extension:

jupyter nbextension enable nbextension-scratchpad/main

You can disable the extension again:

jupyter nbextension disable nbextension-scratchpad/main