I don’t exactly understand where Observable is saving/hosting notebooks? Are they versioned / can we see edit history? Are they in a git repository (or can they be put into one)? Is there a file format for notebooks (or maybe a multi-plain-text-file-in-a-directory format)?
Maybe this should be a new topic, but I would really love to be able to edit notebooks in my own text editor, push changes to github, and see updates in the online browser version (and vice versa). IDEs / text editors could have an observable mode created to integrate an offline runtime, etc.
Basically, if it’s a plain text format built on regular files in a directory, then I can use whatever tools I want, and am not stuck in a browser. If not, I have to put in more manual work to copy/paste between local files and little browser text boxes.