Accessing and Saving Notebook in Drive
Once you’ve linked your Drive to Colab, you can access and save notebooks from Drive directly within Colab.
To access a notebook from Drive
1. Click on the File menu and select Open Notebook.
access notebook from file menu
2. Click on the Drive tab and navigate to the notebook you want to open.
open your saved notebook from drive
To save a notebook to Drive
1. Click on the File menu and hit Save your notebook.
save the notebook from file menu
2. Click on the Drive tab and navigate to the folder where you want to save the notebook and click on the Save button.
collab notebooks folder in drive
3. Colab automatically saves your notebooks to a “Colab Notebooks” folder in Google Drive.
colab notebooks folder in drive
Share your Notebook
1. Click on the Share button in the top right corner of the notebook.
select share button
2. Enter the email addresses of the people you want to share the notebook.
share notebook using email address
Additionally you can upload or download your Notebook as .py or .ipynb format.
1. Upload Notebook
upload your colab notebook from file menu
2. Download Notebook
download your colab notebook from file menu
Getting Started With Google Colab
Google Colab is the short form for “Google Colabortory“. It is an executable document that lets you write, run, and share code or you can think as an improved version of “Jupyter Notebook” stored in Google Drive. You might be wondering about the word “Notebook“, in simple words it is just a document that includes executable lines of code along with text, images, figures, tables, graphs, equations, and much more that even a layman can able to get insights about the concepts behind it not just developers/programmers out there. It is widely used by data scientists, analysts, and machine learning enthusiasts due to its unique features and advantages.