Quickest way to open jupyter notebook

Question

Every day, I repeat the same procedure over and over to open a Jupyter notebook.

1. I navigate with File Explorer to my work folder C:\Users\MYSELF\WORKFOLDER
2. Open command prompt there
3. Enter the command jupyter notebook or jupyter lab

If you don't have jupyter in your python base environment it becomes even more painful because you need to activate some virtual environment.

Is there a quicker way?

I'd love to have an icon on my desktop that I can just click on!

Answer 1

Right-click on your desktop New -> Shortcut. Then enter the following for the location:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /k cd C:\Users\MYSELF\WORKFOLDER && jupyter notebook

This will start a command prompt and execute the two commands cd C:\Users\MYSELF\WORKFOLDER and jupyter notebook.

Click Next and you can then give that shortcut a name and create it with a click on Finish.