Notebooks

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.

What is a notebook?

A notebook is a document that does things. It looks like a web page -- text, headings, images. But between the text sections, there are cells that run code. You click a play button, the cell runs, and the result appears right below it.

You don't need to write code

You don't write the code. We've already written it. Your job is to fill in a form, pick an option from a dropdown, or type a question -- then click play.

Getting started with your notebook

Every pysolvr product is a Google Colab notebook. You open it, run cells, and get results. No installs, no accounts beyond Google, no command line. This guide walks you through your first session -- from opening Colab to seeing your first output saved in Google Drive.

What you need before starting

1. A Google account -- For Colab and Drive. Free to create at accounts.google.com/signup if you don't have one.

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.