Change IPython/Jupyter notebook working directory

jupyter notebook –help-all could be of help: –notebook-dir=<Unicode> (NotebookManager.notebook_dir) Default: u’/Users/me/ipynbs’ The directory to use for notebooks. For example: jupyter notebook –notebook-dir=/Users/yourname/folder1/folder2/ You can of course set it in your profiles if needed, you might need to escape backslash in Windows. Note that this will override whatever path you might have set in a jupyter_notebook_config.py … Read more

In which conda environment is Jupyter executing?

As mentioned in the comments, conda support for jupyter notebooks is needed to switch kernels. Seems like this support is now available through conda itself (rather than relying on pip). http://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/user-guide/tasks/use-jupyter-notebook-extensions/ conda install nb_conda which brings three other handy extensions in addition to Notebook Conda Kernels.