[aaren]

I wrote notedown precisely so that I could edit notebooks in my text editor and version control them as plain text.

It would be good to be able to transparently edit a .ipynb in a text editor - I've been meaning to wrap notedown in a vim plugin but haven't had time. This still leaves the version control problem though.

Note that I recently enabled the reverse (editing markdown in the browser as if it was a notebook), enabled by setting the following in ~/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_notebook_config.py (or similar):

    c.NotebookApp.contents_manager_class = 'notedown.NotedownContentsManager'

This is useful for more interactive work, e.g. iterating on plots, whilst still having everything stored in markdown. See [1] for more info.

[1]: https://github.com/aaren/notedown/issues/22