Notebook to plain text,nothing needed to read it.

Use the converter at the top of this page: choose or drop in your .ipynb file and the browser writes a plain-text document — markdown as written, code under In[] prompts, outputs attached. Then download the .txt file. No upload, no install, no terminal.

Run jupyter nbconvert --to script notebook.ipynb for code-only output, or --to markdown for a .md file. There is no direct --to txt route in nbconvert; this page fills that gap in the browser, keeping markdown and outputs in one readable file.

PY is for running: only code survives, markdown becomes comments, and the file stays a valid Python script. TXT is for reading: markdown stays markdown, outputs and errors are included, and the file is not meant to be executed — it is a transcript of the session.

Images have no text form, so each one becomes a single placeholder line naming its type — for example "[image output: PNG]". The notebook keeps the original; the text export keeps a marker where each figure sat, so reading never skips a beat.

Yes when the include-outputs behaviour is on, which it is by default: stream text, results, JSON and even flattened HTML tables appear under their cell with an Out[] label, so the file reads top to bottom like the executed session.

Three common reasons: pasting a session into a bug report or ticket where rich formats get mangled, keeping a log of what ran when plain text is all that survives the archive, and reading a notebook on a terminal or over SSH where nothing renders.

Not faithfully — TXT is a read-only transcript, not the structured format the converters here write. If you need round-tripping, use IPYNB to PY (code only, reversible with Jupytext) or IPYNB to Markdown (headings and fences, re-read by many tools).

Printing produces a page-oriented document you cannot grep, diff or index; TXT produces one plain file that every editor, terminal and pipeline understands. For reading the code and outputs, text wins; for sharing something well-formatted, the PDF converter wins.

Yes. The file is read with the browser File API and written inside the tab, so after the page loads you can disconnect the network and the conversion still works — which is also the practical proof nothing was uploaded.

No. The file is read with the browser's File API, parsed as JSON and serialized inside the tab. No server is involved at any step — close the tab and nothing is left behind.

Usually smaller: text outputs carry their characters only, images collapse to one-line placeholders, and notebook metadata is left out. A notebook heavy on figures exports to a few kilobytes of text.

Yes, with no account, no file-size gate and no watermark. The conversion runs on your own device, so there is no per-file cost — same as the site IPYNB to PDF, IPYNB to PY, IPYNB to HTML and IPYNB to Markdown converters.