SmartAcademicNotebook

Context : EducationExploded, AcademicPublishing, PersonalKnowledgeManagement, ToolsForThought

Notebooks for academics (scientists, researchers etc.) which allow connection to datasets and embedded code. AcademicKnowledgeManagementSoftware

(ReadWith) ElectronicLaboratoryNotebook

• JuPyter is probably an early example.
• NextJournal is a company offering hosting of them.
• MariaCloud is a ClojureLanguage interactive one.
• Pronto? (See LivelyKernel)
• NewSpeak's web IDE might actually be close to my dream in SmalltalkNeedsANewUI
• Observable
• 2022 basic workspaces in Cardigan Bay are running, allowing you to both embed running ClojureScript scripts into your pages. AND publish them to your static / public site. More on CardiganBayWorkspacePublishing)

These ought to be the focus of academic publishing and practice.

AcademicJournals ought to insist that all publications are accompanied by a Smart Notebook.

DigitalGardening is a more general note-taking / PKM culture. So ToolsForDigitalGardeners is related.

Zotero is a BrowserExtension which is aimed at helping you collect citations to AcademicJournals articles etc.

Criticism

What's wrong with them : https://austinhenley.com/pubs/Chattopadhyay2020CHI_NotebookPainpoints.pdf

Clerk for example is designed to avoid certain problems with them :

Specifically Clerk wants to address the following problems:

• Less helpful than my editor
• Notebook code being hard to reuse
• Reproduction problems coming from out-of-order execution
• Problems with archival and putting notebooks in source control

Seems to me these issues could be solved within notebooks too, if the notebook designers decide to take them seriously.