gives a list of notebooks currently open in the front end.


Notebooks
gives a list of notebooks currently open in the front end.
Details and Options

- Notebooks[] returns a list of NotebookObject constructs.
- Notebooks[fe] gives a list of notebooks open in a specific front end, specified by a FrontEndObject. The default is $FrontEnd.
Examples
open all close allScope (2)
Get the notebook that contains a given CellObject:
Get the notebook that contains a given BoxObject:
Tech Notes
Related Guides
Related Workflows
- Find a Notebook’s NotebookObject Identifier
History
Introduced in 1996 (3.0) | Updated in 2012 (9.0)
Text
Wolfram Research (1996), Notebooks, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Notebooks.html (updated 2012).
CMS
Wolfram Language. 1996. "Notebooks." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2012. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Notebooks.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (1996). 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="2012", 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={2012}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Notebooks.html}, note=[Accessed: 15-August-2025]}