How to change my jupyter notebook working directory?

Question

I would like to change my jupyter notebook working directory, how should I proceed?

If it is possible, I also want to keep the current working directory.

Answer 1

You can change it using --notebook-dir=

jupyter notebook --notebook-dir=$HOME/Documents/MyProject

and like always use it without --notebook-dir= to get it run in current working directory:

jupyter notebook

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If you always work on same directory then create an alias:

alias my_jupyter='jupyter notebook --notebook-dir=$HOME/Documents/MyProject'

Now when you run my_jupyter "Jupyter" will be run at $HOME/Documents/MyProject.