Archived: RetroLab is the successor to the simplest notebook.
The simplest possible Jupyter Notebook interface.
Sometimes, you want only the notebook you are working on your screen, and nothing else. You want no configurability, no knobs to turn, no panes to explore. The simplest notebook is for you!
The primary target audience is folks who are teaching introductory classes with Jupyter Notebooks - students in these classes might find JupyterLab too intimidating.
The Simplest Notebook can be installed with pip.
pip install simplest-notebook
Once installed, you can open simplest notebook with
jupyter simplest-notebook