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[nicole-brewer]

Motivation explained in #19.

• Notebook walking through creating repo steps?
• Notebook walking through nbdev workflow steps
  • this can be done in Python, but it might be nice to have it translated into bash as well, which could go in the .github/workflows
  • use magic to pull the bash script into the workflow notebook at the end just for inspection
  • could lightly introduce actions at this point, as well as the other actions nbdev ships with (building docs, push to user.github.io)
• Create a github workflow from that notebook
• Discard site building actions

[nicole-brewer]

Okay, big breakthrough here. I remember requesting this feature a while ago. Where you can export a notebook without having a whole project set up. Instead of nbdev.nbdev_export, you just use nbdev.export.nb_export. Amazing. Now I can use the dashboarding notebook to create the dashboard and not have a whole other settings.ini. This will make this a whole lot easier because I can keep my current infrastructure. And I can introduce nbdev in steps. First the concept of export and hide and other things that aren't project based, and then later come back to the things that rely on settings.ini.

[nicole-brewer]

This also means I can discard the branch I was working on and pop my stash because I don't have to make a whole bunch of breaking changes.