# Notebooks – DigitalOcean Documentation > Notebooks are a web-based Jupyter IDE with shared persistent storage for long-term development and inter-notebook collaboration, backed by accelerated machines. - [Notebooks Support](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/support/index.html.md): Get help with technical support and answers to frequently asked questions. ## Getting Started with Notebooks Quickstarts and intermediate tutorials to get started. - [Notebooks Quickstart](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/getting-started/quickstart/index.html.md): Just the essentials to go from zero to working in a few minutes. - [Create a Jupyter Notebook with Templates or Custom Notebooks](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/getting-started/create-jupyter-notebook/index.html.md): Create a Jupyter Notebook by using an existing template or creating a custom notebook. - [Create and Run Example Gradient Notebooks with Fast.ia and CLIP-PixelDraw](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/getting-started/run-example-notebooks/index.html.md): Create and run two example Gradient Notebooks, one using Fast.ai to get started and another using CLIP-PixelDraw to generate a clip art from a string of text. ## Notebooks How-Tos How to accomplish specific tasks in detail, like creation/deletion, configuration, and management. - [How to Create Notebooks](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/how-to/create-notebooks/index.html.md): Create a notebook using Paperspace's CPU- and GPU-backed machines. - [How to Swap Machines Attached to Notebooks](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/how-to/swap-machines/index.html.md): Swap and see the kernel state for machines attached to notebooks. - [How to Fork Notebooks](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/how-to/fork-notebooks/index.html.md): Fork a notebook to create a clone of a public notebook into your workspace or to duplicate a notebook already in your workspace. - [How to Share Notebooks](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/how-to/share-notebooks/index.html.md): Share access to Notebooks to let other users view and run your notebook. - [How to Add a Run on Gradient Badge for Notebooks](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/how-to/add-run-on-gradient/index.html.md): Use a Run on Gradient URL or badge to share Gradient Notebooks on Paperspace. - [How to Create Datasets for Notebooks](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/how-to/create-datasets/index.html.md): Create datasets using the Paperspace console and command line. - [How to Mount Datasets in a Gradient Notebook](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/how-to/mount-datasets/index.html.md): Mount existing team datasets, public datasets, and create new team datasets to explore data and training models. - [How to Upload and Download Datasets and Files from Gradient Notebooks](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/how-to/transfer-data-and-files/index.html.md): Upload and download files from the file manager, transfer files from Google Drive to your notebook, and access shared persistent storage. - [How to Connect S3-Compatible Data Sources to Notebooks](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/how-to/connect-data-sources/index.html.md): Mount public or private S3 buckets into notebooks to access data stored externally. - [How to Set Up Storage Providers for Notebooks](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/how-to/add-storage-providers/index.html.md): Add DigitalOcean Spaces Object Storage or another public storage provider. - [How to Manage Storage for Notebooks](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/how-to/manage-storage/index.html.md): Manage storage in Linux-based environment. - [How to Use the Terminal to Access Notebook Machines](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/how-to/use-terminal/index.html.md): Access a terminal in Gradient Notebooks to use root access to the underlying machine. - [How to Connect to Remote Jupyter Kernel](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/how-to/connect-remote-kernel/index.html.md): Connect to remote Jupyter kernels through alternative IDEs. - [How to Access and Restart Jupyter Kernels](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/how-to/restart-kernels/index.html.md): How to check on Jupyter kernel states - [How to Use Custom Containers in Gradient Notebooks](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/how-to/manage-containers/index.html.md): Use and configure custom containers in Gradient Notebooks to define your own runtime environment and dependencies. - [How to View Logs for Gradient Notebooks](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/how-to/view-notebook-logs/index.html.md): Access real time and post-workload system logs for Gradient Deployments. - [How to View Metrics For Gradient Notebooks](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/how-to/view-notebook-metrics/index.html.md): Access CPU usage, RAM usage, and GPU performance metrics for Gradient Notebooks. - [How to Use TensorBoard in Notebooks](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/how-to/use-tensorboard/index.html.md): Use TensorBoard, a visualization toolkit from TensorFlow, within Gradient notebooks to visualize metrics and histograms, display images, and more. ## Notebooks Concepts Explanations and definitions of core concepts in Notebooks. - [Notebook Templates](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/concepts/notebook-templates/index.html.md): Templates are pre-configured notebooks used for machine learning (ML) libraries and repositories. ## Notebooks Details Features, plans and pricing, availability, limits, known issues, and more. - [Notebooks Features](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/details/features/index.html.md): Notebooks provide a fully-managed IDE for exploring data and building machine learning models - [Paperspace Pricing](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/details/pricing/index.html.md): Pricing for Paperspace products and Gradient subscriptions. - [Notebooks Availability](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/details/availability/index.html.md): Regional datacenter availability for notebooks. - [Notebooks Limits](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/details/limits/index.html.md): Limits and known issues for Notebooks. - [Public Datasets](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/details/public-datasets/index.html.md): Public datasets available for use in Notebooks and Workflows. - [Storage Architecture](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/details/storage-architecture/index.html.md): Interact with data through intuitive storage primitives. - [Storage Types](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/paperspace/notebooks/details/storage-types/index.html.md): Types of storage in Notebooks such as persistent storage and versioned data.