is True if the Wolfram System is being used with a notebook‐based front end.


$Notebooks
is True if the Wolfram System is being used with a notebook‐based front end.
Details

- $Notebooks is automatically set by the front end when it starts the Wolfram Language kernel.
Examples
open all close allBasic Examples (1)
Applications (1)
An application can check $Notebooks to decide how to behave:
See Also
Tech Notes
History
Introduced in 1991 (2.0)
Text
Wolfram Research (1991), $Notebooks, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$Notebooks.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 1991. "$Notebooks." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$Notebooks.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (1991). $Notebooks. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$Notebooks.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_$notebooks, author="Wolfram Research", title="{$Notebooks}", year="1991", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$Notebooks.html}", note=[Accessed: 15-August-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_$notebooks, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={$Notebooks}, year={1991}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$Notebooks.html}, note=[Accessed: 15-August-2025]}