Did you ever dream of editing your Jupyter Notebooks outside of Jupyter? Jupytext lets you synchronize your notebooks with .py or .md versions. These alternative formats are way lighter than .ipynb, and are a perfect fit for version control and collaboration. Edit the .py or .md files in a text editor, and Jupytext will automatically apply the changes back to the .ipynb file.
.ipynb format.py or .md files.py file becomes a notebook!.py notebook with persistent outputs