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Notebooks lie open in vacant school classrooms, while a game of pool in a bar appears to have been abandoned mid-match.

From Barron's • Jun. 12, 2026

Notebooks: The files included notebooks where Biden had written about national security and foreign policy - and implicated sensitive intelligence sources.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2024

“I have read all of the books, with the exception of the letters of Patricia Highsmith,” she says, indicating the mammoth 1,000-page “Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2023

Many universities, for example, now offer faculty members training in using Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application designed to make it easier to share data.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 24, 2023

Notebooks, papers, and pencils had spilled everywhere, and Martina was raising herself slowly to her hands and knees, spluttering and shaking her head as she tried to get her bearings.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart