[Dessesaf]

I used Notebooks for notes for a while. It's useful. The choice is essentially between Markdown with inline code, or Notebooks, which are Code with markdown inbetween. Markdown focusses on the text, and the code is incidental. You usually don't want to execute it. For Notebooks, executing the code is the focus.

I personally thought I would really value the ability to execute the code, but I found out that it wasn't useful to me. The kind of code I write in my notes is rarely executable. It misses library includes, boilerplate declarations, or sometimes isn't quite syntactically correct.

The overhead of trying to make each (or even most) cell in a Notebook executable takes away from the "whatever is most expressive" mindset I have for notes.

There's one big caveat though. Notebooks are much better for sharing with others. If the code is complete, and literally executable as-is, that is much more useful to others I show the notes. Most of my private notes don't have this constraint though.

I'd probably use notebooks if I was writing something I would possibly publish in the future. Much easier to share it with others to get feedback that way.