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+# Being More Productive with Jupyter Notebooks: An Introduction to NBExtensions
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+This talk is about how to get the most out of the [NBExtensions]() feature of Jupyter Notebooks.
+
+NBExtensions provide an array of interesting functionality to Jupyter and this talk touches on a few of them, including
+
+* gist-it
+* table of contents
+* spell checker,
+* and others
+
+The original talk was presented on April 21, 2017 by me (myself and I) to the [CU Boulder Computational Science and Engineering Research Group](https://www.meetup.com/University-of-Colorado-Computational-Science-and-Engineering/events/239108756/).
+
+## Installing the talk
+
+This talk was originally written as a Jupyter notebook and the HTML file for the talk is using [reveal.js]().
+
+To convert the talk to HTML you will need to run:
+```
+jupyter nbconvert nbextensions_talk.ipynb --to slides --reveal-prefix "http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/reveal.js/3.3.0"
+```
+
+## Viewing the talk
+
+While the source for the talk is provided here, you do not need to convert it unless you need to make modifications to it.
+
+To view the talk, simply clone this repository and view the original HTML source in any browser here:
+
+[Original source HTML](./slides.slides.html)
+
+The example file that shows a few of these extensions at work can be found in the notebook:
+
+[Example notebook showing extensions at work](./example_document.ipynb)
+
+OR as HTML
+
+[HTML-converted example notebook showing extensions at work](./example_document.html)
+
+## Resources
+
+Installing NBExtensions can be found here:
+
+[https://github.com/ipython-contrib/jupyter_contrib_nbextensions](https://github.com/ipython-contrib/jupyter_contrib_nbextensions)
+
+And the convenience of installing the plugin configurator can be found here:
+[https://github.com/Jupyter-contrib/jupyter_nbextensions_configurator](https://github.com/Jupyter-contrib/jupyter_nbextensions_configurator)
+
+The complete instructions and project documentation should be consulted to install properly.
+