How to view two jupyter notebooks on the same screen (I have just one monitor) using a Mac?

Question

I welcome instructions to do this either with Jupyter Notebook or Jupyter Lab.

My intent for learning purposes, is to download and open various notebooks from GitHub, and open new notebooks to replicate the original notebook from GitHub.

I could simply switch back-and-forth from one notebook to the other to achieve my goal. But, it would be a lot easier if I could have both notebooks opened vertically in two separate windows. Is there an easy way to do some sort of split-screen viewing?

Answer 1

You can do this out of the box in JupyterLab by opening both notebooks and then dragging one of the tabs to the right side of the screen. You can’t do this in the legacy jupyter notebook viewer - it needs to be jupyter lab.

See the jupyterlab docs on the interface for more info.