Customisation
Updating your notebook
Your notebook improves over time. New features, fixes, and refinements land in new versions. This guide covers how to check for updates, how to upgrade, and how to keep any custom work you've added.
How versions work
Your notebook's Account cell has a Version section. Run it and you'll see your current version number and, if a newer version exists, a link to the latest.
The link in your original welcome email points to the version available when you subscribed. It doesn't update automatically -- your saved copy in Drive stays exactly as it was until you choose to upgrade.
Notebook best practices
These habits take thirty seconds each and will save you from losing work, breaking your notebook, or wondering why something stopped working.
Save to Drive immediately -- and name it with the version number
When you open a notebook from GitHub, you're viewing a read-only copy. Nothing you do persists until you save it to your Drive.
File > Save a copy in Drive -- do this before running anything.