The notebook server have "contents managers" which decide how notebooks get stored. It is perfectly possible to write what you request, and some users have done it: https://github.com/aaren/notedown here without the outputs but it's easy enough to add.
The other possibility is to export a notebook as an actual files and folder tree: https://github.com/takluyver/nbexplode so rich object (png, svg... etc) are independently editable.
It though can be challenging to have work well because of different filesystems.
The other possibility is to export a notebook as an actual files and folder tree: https://github.com/takluyver/nbexplode so rich object (png, svg... etc) are independently editable.
It though can be challenging to have work well because of different filesystems.
You can even go further and tell the server to store nothing on disk but in a database, postgres for example :https://github.com/quantopian/pgcontents