I thought to post this idea, maybe someone will find it interesting<br><br>Notebook's reusable cells feature is great, everybody must agree as that's proven concept, but in qtconsole there is no similar thing. There is a prompt and history magic, (also there are lots of other things making it launching Python in easy orbit), but when typing in I always use separate editor to store lines snippets and notes, generally or related to particular idea I'm working on.<br>
<br>I don't know if team is working on some unification file format for different IPython interfaces, and thinking about it, maybe it wouldn't be hard to implement something like "qtconsole notes", as separate pane just like help system in qtconsole , that will allow some kind or reusable code concept. So user can evoke this panel, which could be just edit control, with some additional features - maybe bookmarks that will separate different snippets and perhaps some other additions.<br>
<br>On a far reach, and why I thought to write this mail, this new pane may be just an ".ipynb" reader/writer, that will allow interaction between qtconsole and Notebook. So not only qtconsole user would be able to read ".ipynb" files (maybe with some restrictions on contents) but it can serve as note taking and making snippets in proven format, that can be used later by Notebook.<br>
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