Setup Instructions for Jupyter Notebook Support
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Instructions for PyCharm (Version 2025.1 or newer)
Make sure you have the , not the Community Edition
If you are coming from the Community edition you can import all of your settings
To get rid of the messages to switch to Pro, you have to cancel the 30-days-trial-subscription (top right corner, scroll all the way down, click continue with core version, click cancel subscription and restart PyCharm)
Open a new project (File > New Project)
Select Pure Python and Interpreter Type Project venv and adjust the environment location on disk as needed
From the menu create a new file (File > New) and select Jupyter Notebook
Run a code cell to see that it works (takes some time on first start in a new project, because it installs some dependencies into the project folder's environment)
Instructions for VS Code
Install and then the extensions Python and Jupyter (both by Microsoft) from the extensions pane
In the file explorer pane open a folder where you want your project to be stored
Create a Jupyter Notebook (File > New > Jupyter Notebook)
Click on Select Kernel > Python enviroments > New environment > python venv > Python (global)
Run a code cell to see that it works (takes some time on first start in a new project, because it installs some dependencies into the project folder's environment)
After you have setup Notebook support in VS Code and/or PyCharm you can install new packages into the project folder (local venv environment) by executing a cell like this: %pip install package_name